I'm somewhat new to perl OOP. I've been working on a perl module and found that it was getting a big unwieldy, so decided to spin off a few child classes to my main class to help organization and what not. I'd like to be able to call methods from the child class as if they were in the parent class (at least that's how I envisioned this working). Simplified example: 
package parentClass;

use parentClass::childClass;

sub new {
    my ($class, %params) = @_;
    my $self = {};

    bless ($self, $class);
    return ($self);
}
1;


package parentClass::childClass;

sub new {
    my ($class, %params) = @_;
    my $self = {};

    bless ($self, $class);
    return ($self);
}

sub myMethod {

return ('Yo I am one sweet method');

}


Test Script utilizing these classes:

use parentClass;

$object = parentClass->new();

print $object->myMethod();

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When I do this, perl complains that it can't find myMethod. I'm betting this is something fairly simple, but I can' figure it out. Thanks.

In reply to Method of child module called by parent by gzartman

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