Ah, very cool. Thanks.

What I'm trying to achieve is to have the Child object behave differently depending on what created it. So if the Child object has a method called reply, it will respond with Yes, Mommy. if the Parent package created it and Yes, Teacher if the Teacher package created it. I was going to use the context property to determine how it the object should respond with something like this: 

sub reply {
  my $self = shift;
  if ($self->context eq 'teacher') {
    return "Yes, Teacher";
  else {
    return "Yes, Mommy.";
  }
}

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But as I think about it, this could get messy. I think what I really need to do is create a parent class for Child with default methods and then override those methods for the different type of Child subclasses. It would be nice to have the calling package be able to construct the correct Child subclass automatically I think I can use your suggestions here to help me achieve that.

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In reply to Re^2: What is a reliable way to get the package of the code creating a Moose object? by nysus
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