Based on our previous conversations, I will guess that you want to call every implementation of a method in the inheritance tree instead of only the most-specific?

There is probably a module on CPAN somewhere for this, and perhaps another monk will be able to cite it, but I do not know. I suggest trying: (untested)

sub _run_chain {
  my $s = shift;
  my $sub = shift;
  for my $r ( @{ $s->{_classes} }  ) {
    $s->($r.'::'.$sub) if $s->can($r.'::'.$sub);
  }
}

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This will override the method search to directly call each method. Because Perl is a highly dynamic language, I have removed the no strict and expect that this will not contain a symref.

Your problem was not in this code at all — it was looking up $sub as a class method for each $r and then, finding that a sub by that name does indeed exist in that package, invoking it as a class method even though it is written as an instance method. You have been actually calling into File::Collector::Date::Classifie...::$sub and that is where the error is occurring. I think that running your code under the debugger would give you a nice backtrace showing the successful call and the unsuccessful dereference. (Simply run the script with perl -d and type c at the prompt to let the program run.)

And another comment on OO design: subclass relationships and the package hierarchy are independent in Perl. It might make more sense to have a File::Collector::Sorter::Date::ByMonth mixin class that groups files by month, or your sorting classes may all make more sense somewhere in your application's local package hierarchy.

In reply to Re: Unable to turn off strict refs by jcb
in thread Unable to turn off strict refs by nysus

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