It's a good point that you don't always want to call the object's superclass.

However, what was frustrating was my inability to do it when I did want to do that. Sometimes you want to e.g. recurse upwards through an object's inheritance tree (for, say, finding out about class data). Anyway, I used Class::ISA, so it worked out OK in the end. I think I was a little grumpy that day. (SPOPS).

dave hj~