I'm trying to make 'objFood' inherit from 'Object', but it doesn't seem to want to. @ISA doesn't want to do anything. Here are the packages in question: 

#-----------------------------------------------
package Object;
#-----------------------------------------------

sub create {
  my ($pkg, $name, $weight) = @_;
  my $obj = bless {
    "name"    => $name,
    "weight"  => $weight,
    "created" => time,
  }, $pkg;
  return $obj;
}


#-----------------------------------------------
package objFood;
#-----------------------------------------------

@objFood::ISA = qw(Object);

sub new {
  my ($pkg, $name, $weight, $size, $life) = @_;
  my $obj = $pkg->create($name, $weight);
  $obj->{"size"} = $size;
  $obj->{"life"} = $life;
  return $obj;
}

[download]


To call it I use, for example:
my $obj1 = objFood->new('cheese', 1, 3, 600);


The error message I get is:
Can't locate object method "create" via package "objFood" (perhaps you forgot to load "objFood"?) at ./nat line 141.


Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance,
--
Dave.

In reply to Inheritance not working... by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.