Re: Editing files in a module

[jettero]

Chargrill is definitely correct. I do that very thing from time to time while developing.

But, please also consider that editing the module directly may be the wrong approach — unless you intend to release patches to the module maintainer. Otherwise, the next time you install a new version of Module, you'll have to make all your changes all over again.

package BetterApproach;

use strict;
use warings;
use Module;
use base qw(Module);

sub extended_function {
    my $self = shift;

    if( $something ) {
       # new stuff
       return $new_stuff
    }

    $self->SUPER::extended_function(@_); # old stuff
}

[EvanK]

and if you can't submit your improvements to the original module's author or if your modifications dont fit with the intent of the original, rewrite the module in question under a subsequent namespace (making sure to credit the original module and author, especially if you're largely including any of their code).

ie: if the original module was App::Functionality, name your modified module App::Functionality::Extra