I am no OO wizard and i really don't fully understand what you are trying to accomplish. I am intriqued by the question however, and i toyed around trying to find a solution. From what i can gather, you are trying to call SUPER after you have already 'backed up' to the SUPER object - not a recommended thing to do.

Instead, how about a more traditional polymorphic approach: 

package Foo;

use strict;

sub new {
    bless {}, shift();
}

sub do_something {
   my $self = shift;
   my $name = shift || 'foo';
   return make_do_something($name);
}

sub make_do_something {
    my $name = shift;
    return sub {
        my $self = shift;
        print "Foo $name!!!\n";
    }
}

1;

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package Bar;

use strict;
use base 'Foo';

sub new {
    bless {}, shift();
}

sub do_something {
   my $self = shift;
   return $self->SUPER::do_something('bar');
}

1;

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I _think_ this will accomodate your needs ...

This is my test script. The big difference is that the do_something() method returns a code ref, so you need to add some syntax: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Foo;
use Bar;

$_->do_something()->() for (new Foo, new Bar);

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The reason why is, well - i don't know exactly what you are trying to accomplish by returning a sub in your make_do_something() method. If the only reason you do that is to create a method, then you can use this code and just drop make_do_something() completely. Everything you need is in Foo::do_something(). Hope this helps.

jeffa

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In reply to (jeffa) Re: Trying to re-use code at different levels of an inherited object. by jeffa
in thread Trying to re-use code at different levels of an inherited object. by ehdonhon

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