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Re: Re: Re: Re: inheritance turns back and bites

by tovod-everett (Sexton)
on Mar 02, 2004 at 04:12 UTC ( [id://333156]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: Re: inheritance turns back and bites
in thread inheritance turns back and bites

If your intent is to ensure that increment calls add in the same package, why not use:
sub increment { my $self = shift; &add($self, number => 1); }
Use subroutine calls when you want to create your own explicit binding, use -> notation when you desire runtime binding of the message.

Of course, it would be my opinion that it is particularly bad form for a child class to re-implement a method in a manner that is not backward compatible - it's a violation of the contract as far as I'm concerned.

--Toby Ovod-Everett

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