Devel::Symdump can do what you want. Something like:

use Devel::Symdump;

my @subclasses;
foreach (Devel::Symdump->rnew->packages) {
    push @subclasses, $_ if UNIVERSAL::isa($_, $class);
};

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should do what you want.

Actually, it won't since $class->isa($class) is true - it will include the class as a member of its subclasses. The following will return just the subclasses :-)

sub subclasses_of {
  my $class = shift;
  grep { $_->isa($class) && $_ ne $class} Devel::Symdump->rnew->packag
+es;
};

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In reply to Re: subclass discovery at runtime by adrianh
in thread subclass discovery at runtime by dash2

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