Re^2: Extending objects

[punkish]

Thanks! This is brilliant. I didn't know about h2xs -AXc -n, so that itself is a great tip. The only issue I have with your approach is that Foo and Bar are inherited from Foobar, which works against the mental model I had of this. In my mental model, Foobar was inherited from Foo as well as from Bar. As JavaFan termed it, it was multiple inheritance I was after. Your approach requires in foo.pl

use FooBar::Foo.pm
use FooBar::Bar.pm

I want the user to be shielded from the inner workings of Foobar. So, as far as the user is concerned, only the following should be required in foo.pl

use Foobar;

That way I can add more "parents" to Foobar in the future, if required. For example, I could modify Foobar to inherit from Baz.pm as well, but the user would not have to change foo.pl.

All that said, many thanks for your very clear explanation.

[stevieb]

The example I used wasn't a good one ;) It is upside-down in the traditional sense, and based on a project I have that contains numerous modules that require a centralized configuration mechanism so I can use each module individually, as opposed to having to load them all via the parent each and every time.

Pointers to a better way for this very welcome.

Cheers,

Steve