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

Recently, I've found myself wishing that there was an easy way to decline to handle a method in AUTOLOAD and instead try other AUTOLOADs up and across the @ISA.

You can sort of fake it by using SUPER:: and/or calling your superclass AUTOLOADs directly, but frankly, that seems a little bit cludgish, and worse, it doesn't go across @ISA.

Does anyone have a better idea for me than calling my superclasses' AUTOLOAD directly or using SUPER::?
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Re: smart inheritance and overriding of AUTOLOAD
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Oct 25, 2003 at 07:05 UTC
    I suggest you try reading perlmod (and related materials) and actually try some of these things out (you're talking about SUPER::, sure you can emulate it, but there is no point) bad example here

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Re: smart inheritance and overriding of AUTOLOAD
by sgifford (Prior) on Oct 25, 2003 at 06:23 UTC
    What don't you like about SUPER::?
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      It looks like what he doesn't like about SUPER:: are the issues that TheDamian's NEXT attempts to solve.

      (Namely it doesn't play well with multiple inheritance = aka it doesn't go "across" the inheritance tree.)

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        Ah! NEXT definetly looks like what I was looking for. I should have guessed that TheDamian would have already implemented it.

        Too bad that its not an integral part of the interpreter.
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