It seems to me that instead of manipulating data structures you should be using an object-oriented approach: A
European class/package, from which the
German class/package inherits its language() etc. methods.
Inheritance will take care of your 'overriding' requirements.
To mock around with these concepts, use Class::Prototyped:
use Class::Prototyped;
my $european = Class::Prototyped->new(
language => 'English',
food => 'Europizza',
);
my $german = Class::Prototyped->new(
'parent*' => $european,
food => 'Wiener Schnitzel',
);
my $bavarian = Class::Prototyped->new(
'parent*' => $german,
);
print "Default language: ",
$bavarian->language(), "\n";
$bavarian->language("Bavarian");
print "Explicitely set language: ",
$bavarian->language(), "\n";
print "Default food: ",
$bavarian->food(), "\n";
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