Upon further reading, I wasn't specific enough, I suppose.

Perl gives me an error upon trying to create a new BaseClass::Log::Writer object

When I step through the code, I get a call to the Writer.pm module's new() sub with "BaseClass::Log::Writer" as the class. This is good.

I then call $class->SUPER::new which takes me into the Log.pm module's new sub. Here's where things are funky. I assume the class should now be "BaseClass::Log", but it's showing as "BaseClass::Log::Writer" which barfs when I call $class->SUPER::new.

Here are the various constructors.

BaseClass Constructor:

package BaseClass;

sub new {
  my $class = shift @_;
  my $self = {};
  $self = bless $self, $class;
  
  # Re-read the config file if it has changed...               
  my $mtime = ( stat(CONFIG_FILE) )[9];
  if ($mtime != $config_time) {
    ($config, $config_time) = &_read_config(CONFIG_FILE);
  }
  return $self;
}
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Log.pm Constructor:

package BaseClass::Log;
@ISA = qw( BaseClass );

sub new {
  my $class = shift;
  my $self = $class->SUPER::new;
  my (%opt) = ( @_ );

  $self->{opt} = \%opt;
  
  # Connect to the database.
  $self->{dbh} = $self->connect_db('hits') || return undef;

  return $self;

}
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Writer.pm Constructor

package BaseClass::Log::Writer;
@ISA = qw( BaseClass::Log );

sub new {
  my $class = shift @_;
  my $self  = $class->SUPER::new;
  my (%opt) = (@_);

  # Standard fields for the Log module go in this array.
  @self::_properties = qw( type_id
                           class_id
                           subclass_id
                           severity
                           process_id
                           text_info
                           program_name
                           module_name
                           unix_pid
                           host_name
                           purge_date
                         );
  # We can set up some defaults for process and such.
  $opt{unix_pid}     = $$ unless $opt{unix_pid};
  $opt{program_name} = $0 unless $opt{program_name};
  $opt{hostname}     = $ENV{HOSTNAME} unless $opt{hostname};
  $opt{module_name}  = caller || $opt{program_name}
    unless $opt{module_name};
  $opt{purge_date}   = POSIX::strftime("%Y-%m-%d", localtime(time))
     unless $opt{purge_date};
  $opt{type_id}      = 'unknown' unless $opt{type_id};
  $opt{class_id}     = 'unknown' unless $opt{class_id};
  $opt{subclass_id}  = 'unknown' unless $opt{subclass_id};
  $opt{severity}     = 0 unless $opt{severity};

  $self->{opt} = \%opt;
  return $self;
}
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I hope this makes it a little clearer.