Very true; in fact I've had very little success while experimenting with my own suggestion!

It seems that UNIVERSAL::isa is not doing at all what I'm expecting it to do... 

print UNIVERSAL::isa('SubClass','SuperClass') ? 'true' : 'false';

package SuperClass;
package SubClass;
use vars qw(@ISA);
@ISA=qw(SuperClass);

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Seems to print false! Does this mean 'isa' only works on objects? Not on class-names?

I feel like a noob... I'd consider doing a '--' on my own original post, if I could...

Update: Aristotle got me on track again... Temporary insanity resolved

In reply to Re: Re^2: subclass discovery at runtime by Gilimanjaro
in thread subclass discovery at runtime by dash2

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