Re: Parent cannot call Child method

[Eily]

It actually works the other way around. An object of the class MyParent::MyChild will be able to call methods defined in the parent, if the child does not have a method of the same name itself. So you want to try my $obj = MyParent::MyChild->new(); $obj->parent_nifty_method1();

use parent qw(Parent); already sets the @ISA of the child (and it pushes the parent in the @ISA instead of replacing it, so that a class may inherit from more than one), so you don't have to do it afterwards.

[TorontoJim]

Thank you.

I tried it that way and got this error:

Can't locate object method "new" via package "MyParent::MyChild" (perh
+aps you forgot to load "MyParent::MyChild"?) at

This is how I changed the original call:

use MyParent::MyChild;
my $obj = MyParent::MyChild->new();
$obj->parent_nifty_method1;

I tried use MyParent in addition to use MyParent::MyChild, neither worked.

[jellisii2]

Did you, as Eily suggested, use parent qw(Parent); in MyParent::MyChild?

[TorontoJim]

Yes, this is the start of MyChild after reading Eily's post:

package MyParent::MyChild;
use strict;
no strict "refs";
use Carp qw(croak);
use parent qw(MyParent);

my $VERSION = .01;

sub new {
    my ($class) = @_;
    my $self = {};
    bless $self, $class;
    return $self;
}