in reply to Re: Parent cannot call Child method
in thread Parent cannot call Child method

Thank you.

I tried it that way and got this error:

Can't locate object method "new" via package "MyParent::MyChild" (perh
+aps you forgot to load "MyParent::MyChild"?) at

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This is how I changed the original call:

use MyParent::MyChild;
my $obj = MyParent::MyChild->new();
$obj->parent_nifty_method1;

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I tried use MyParent in addition to use MyParent::MyChild, neither worked.

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Re^3: Parent cannot call Child method
by jellisii2 (Hermit) on Mar 17, 2016 at 13:28 UTC
    Did you, as Eily suggested, use parent qw(Parent); in MyParent::MyChild?
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      Yes, this is the start of MyChild after reading Eily's post: 
      package MyParent::MyChild;
use strict;
no strict "refs";
use Carp qw(croak);
use parent qw(MyParent);

my $VERSION = .01;

sub new {
    my ($class) = @_;
    my $self = {};
    bless $self, $class;
    return $self;
}

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        I can call MyParent::MyChild->new() just fine with this MyChild code, but I had to modify MyParent (remove the return line in new) so that It would compile. But since MyParent::MyChild defines its own new method, MyParent.pm should not even be needed for that call to succeed ...

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