Inheritance and Internal object methods

Angel has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a whole bevy of objects and have been learning recently how to do inheritance, my problem has to do with calling internal methods since they dont get the $self as their first argument so things like accesing the object hash fail.

#assume new method has been called

sub foo # the public method
{    my $self  = shift;

        &bar( "do something" );

}

sub bar # the private method
{
       $self{new} = $_[0];
}
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This does not seem to work what I would like to learn is how to get at the $self object from inside bar hopefully without passing it as a calling argument and is there anything that needs to be done about calling a method in a parent class?

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Re: Inheritance and Internal object methods by dws (Chancellor) on Jun 29, 2003 at 21:52 UTC
... my problem has to do with calling internal methods since they dont get the $self as their first argument ... If you use a normal (non-OO) subroutine invocation, then you're invoking a subroutine, not a method. It's fine for a package to include subroutines as well as methods, though it makes the code harder to subclass and extend. Since you seem to want access to `$self` from within the private method, you probably want to do something like `sub _bar { my $self = shift; ... }` [download] and invoke it from your public method via `$self->_bar("do something");` [download] Note that I've written `_bar` instead of `bar.` That's a convention that some use to designate that a method is private.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Inheritance and Internal object methods by fglock (Vicar) on Jun 29, 2003 at 21:45 UTC
bar() will get $self if you call it like this: `sub foo { my $self = shift; $self->bar( "do something" ); }` [download] If foo() had to call a method in the parent class: `sub foo { my $self = shift; $self->SUPER::foo( "do something" ); }` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]