Greetings, fellow Monks!

I've been through the Object Oriented stuff here, but can't seem to locate anything that relates to my current situation. I am trying to create some process logging classes for a web application at work. The basic structure is this:

 BaseClass.pm
 |
 +-> Log.pm
     |
     +-> Writer.pm
     +-> Reader.pm

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The Log.pm class (BaseClass::Log) inherits some general configuration stuff, a Database handle and other little things needed for the application. The Log.pm contains the functions that would be shared between the Reader (BaseClass::Log::Reader) and Writer (BaseClass::Log::Writer); namely primary key lookup functions and the like. The Writer.pm and Reader.pm contain only the methods necessary to write and read from the log tables.

The Log.pm has an @ISA=qw(BaseClass); Reader.pm and Writer.pm both have @ISA=qw(BaseClass::Log). The object is being blessed (2 argument) in the BaseClass.pm file, and all subsequent modules make a call to $class->SUPER::new.

Everything seems to work fine for the first creation (Writer to Log), but upon calling $class->SUPER::new from the Log object, the class still reads "BaseClass::Log::Writer".

What am I doing wrong?

In reply to Objects and Inheritance by Bobcat

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