Hello gzartman, and welcome to the Monastery!

I'd like to be able to call methods from the child class as if they were in the parent class

You have that back-to-front! Child classes inherit from their parents; parent classes ought to have no knowledge of their children. So when you have code like this:

package parentClass;
use parentClass::childClass;

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it’s almost always a symptom of a faulty OO design.

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.

A child class specialises its parent in a way that makes for an asymmetrical ISA relationship. For example, owl specialises bird, because an owl ISA bird (but a bird is not necessarily an owl). So, anything a bird can do, an owl can do too (but most likely in a distinctively owlish way). And an owl can do things other birds can’t: for example, $owl->hunt_at_night() or $owl->hoot() make a lot more sense than $sparrow->hunt_at_night() or $sparrow->hoot(). So it makes little sense to give hunt_at_night or hoot methods to package bird; and still less sense to try to allow a bird (which could be an eagle, a toucan, or a dodo) to hoot in the way owls do!

I suspect what you’re looking for is a helper class which your parent class accesses via a HASA or USES relationship. But in the absence of concrete details it’s hard to give more definite advice.

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Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: Method of child module called by parent by Athanasius
in thread Method of child module called by parent by gzartman

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