I was wondering (yes, i know i should stop).
Using perl you can do pretty much anything you were supposed to do in compile time at run time intead, right?
How's about dynamically creating namespaces?

I need an object to inherit different classes, at different times.

The object has some data, which can be passed to a 'reblesser' function, which dynamically selects where the object can go now, and if it's allowed there, and if there are several such methods which one, based on info within the object.

I thought of something with eval, or perhaps modifying %::, but i don't know how this really worked.

Another idea is using AUTOLOADER to trancend the object on demand when it needs, calling rebless when a method isn't found.
This will REALLY hurt method call times, which are slow to start with.

Which of the two methods is preferable? Do they work? How do i get around perl caching methods found in @ISA?

i haven't found much documentation, and experimenting seems to always go wrong for me, so i was hoping someone's tried this before...

-nuffin
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