NoSexUntilMarriage on the slowass wiki has more than a few things to say about this, some of them covered here. There are a lot of reasons not to do what you're proposing. You usually want to affect one instance of a class, not the entire class. If you want to affect the entire class, fine, as already said, just use some indirection to hide the implementation. You probably really want one of: StatePattern - implementation dependent upon state, DecoratorPattern - composition through chains of delegation, InnerClasses - writing little built-in adapters to expose alternate interfaces to objects, Or, as mentioned, Class::Classless, which lots you use existing objects as prototypes for new objects. JavaScript works this way, for anyone who has actually played with the OO elements of JavaScript. Interesting, thats all. Yes, this like all of my posts is a shameless plug. Flame on. -scrottie

In reply to @ISA patterns dynamic inheritance evil decorator by Anonymous Monk
in thread Dynamicly controlling @ISA and namespaces by nothingmuch

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