Re: 2-argument bless not working?!

[runrig]

sub new {
    my ($self,$class)=@_;
....
our $cache=Fiets::Cache->new();

There is no '$self' in the argument list when you call new like that. The assignment in new() should just be:

my ($class) = @_;
# or
# my $class = shift;

And your use of base is um, just wrong. 'use base' is meant to be set at a package level, and when you use it, you don't need the 'use *package*' line. Is your cachedir set once per program, and you want to inherit from Cache::FileCache or Cache::NullCache based on it per program run, or can it change per instance of an object? I'm not going to guess at what you want there.

[eXile]

And your use of base is um, just wrong. 'use base' is meant to be set at a package level, and when you use it, you don't need the 'use *package*' line.
I know 'use base' does an implicit 'require', but sometimes ...
Is your cachedir set once per program, and you want to inherit from Cache::FileCache or Cache::NullCache based on it per program run, or can it change per instance of an object? I'm not going to guess at what you want there.
That part of the program is working fine, the 'getvar' function checks %ENV and a config-file for clues on what to use. The whole program just uses 1 instance of Fiets::Cache.

Thanks a lot, I totally missed the $self there!

[djantzen]

Are you sure you're inheritance chain is being set up properly? use and base are compile-time directives, which means that it doesn't matter where they appear in your code, they'll be executed before your code runs. If it's running as expected, that is, you're able to find the inherited methods when you call them on an instance of your subclass, then I would think you've got some multiple inheritance going on. If you truly want those to be set at runtime, I'd use require and manually adjust the @ISA array.