i keep getting errors on this ... so i guess it's time to ask for more help. here's the boiled-down classes: 
package Handler;

use strict;
use CGI;

sub new {
   my $self = shift;
   return bless { _cgi => CGI->new() }, $self;
}

sub cgi {
   my $self = shift;
   my $caller = caller();

   return ( $caller eq 'Handler' ? $self->{_cgi} : $self->SUPER::->{_c
+gi} );
}

package HandlerMethods;

use strict;
use base qw/ Handler /;

sub doSomething {
   my $self = shift;
   my $page = $self->cgi->param('foo');
  
   return 1;

}

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now, problem is, i can't get the superclass *data*. in the subcalss,  $self->cgi is always undef, and i know that's because the subclass is calling the superclass *method* but not finding the CGI object in itself ( because it's superclass data ). i've tried caller to make sure the calling package isn't the superclass ( obviously ).

i know the syntax *should* be easy, but i'm missing it.

In reply to accessing superclass data by geektron

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