Try subclassing with something like this:
package Zoo::Animal;
## it's a hashref!
my $count = {};
sub new {
## get the first argument, could be a blessed object or a package na
+me my $type = shift;
## get the package name
my $class = ref $type || $type;
my $self = bless {} $class;
## get the name of the animal
my ($animal) = $class =~ /^Zoo::Animal::(.+)$/;
$count->{$animal}++;
return $self->_init(@_); ## call the animal's init method and retur
+n what it returns
}
## does nothing in package Zoo::Animal
sub _init {}
####
package Zoo::Animal::Camel
## no sub new
sub _init {
$self = shift;
### blah blah blah
$self->{title} = "Programming Perl";
return $self;
}
...
# will call Zoo::Animal::new() then Zoo::Animal::Camel::_init()
my $camel = Zoo::Animal::Camel->new();
-hth
Sidharth.
$will->code for @food or $$;
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