And yet even another suggestion (along the same lines as dragonchild's suggestion) is to slightly change your congif files. Instead of reading in the entire hash for $self all at once - read in only the attributes and their values, one at a time. This would allow you to easily override the attributes like so:

package Parent;
require ('./parent.cfg');

package Parent::Child;
@ISA=('Parent');
require ('./parent.cfg');
require ('./child.cfg');
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But i think this is a bit wasteful - too many unecessary file reads - try Class::Data::Inheritable as mentioned above.

jeffa

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