For how to use/require modules dynamically, see Best/possible ways to dynamically use modules. Once the module is loaded, it is retained in the appropriate namespace even if the use/require block goes out of scope: eg:
use strict; use Data::Dumper; my $obj = do_sub(); print Dumper $obj; my $cgi = new CGI; print Dumper $cgi; sub do_sub { use CGI; return new CGI; }
will result in no errors in the $cgi line.

As for what you have, you probably want to implement the so-called 'factory' class that you don't instantiate from, but instead use 'static' methods that creates your various subclass instances given the class name in addition to any data that they need. In the perl implementation, this need not necessarily be a separate class, but it's easier to set up this functionality in this fashion if you're not used to it.

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In reply to Re: Inheritance and Container Classes and use/require by Masem
in thread Inheritance and Container Classes and use/require by TGI

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