NEXT.pm adds a pseudoclass named NEXT to any program that uses it. If a method m calls $self-NEXT::m()>, the call to m is redispatched as if the calling method had not originally been found.

In other words, a call to $self-NEXT::m()> resumes the depth-first, left-to-right search of $self's class hierarchy that resulted in the original call to m.

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Another typical use of redispatch would be in AUTOLOAD'ed methods. If such a method determined that it was not able to handle a particular call, it might choose to redispatch that call, in the hope that some other AUTOLOAD (above it, or to its left) might do better.