Your code is highly confused, or at least does not highlight where the problem you describe is.

BEGIN{unshift @ISA,"TorClient";}

our $mp = Data::Vars->new();
P "main::ISA=%s", \@ISA;
$mp->trm_open('trm', 'localhost:1024');

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The altering of @ISA only alters @main::ISA, but the class you're dealing with is of type Data::Vars, whose inheritance you have not altered at all.

I suggest you learn about namespaces and importing subroutines instead of trying to solve problems by abusing inheritance.

What prevents you from writing a class My::TorClient, which defines all the methods you want?

Update: Also see Aggregation, which points to Object composition, and Moose::Manual::Roles. But I think in the end you will be much better served by writing simple subroutines that call the functions you want to call.

In reply to Re^3: mro's which to use for flexibility? by Corion
in thread mro's which to use for flexibility? by perl-diddler

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