Yes, I agree. This was more of a laziness thing than anything else. I have a lot of perl OO experience, just I had never attempted the package variable overloading before and was crossing my fingers that there'd be a way to do it. I understand why its not necessarily a good idea, but perhaps there are some cases where it could be useful (see my previous post). Maybe something like this: 
our $SheetName is overload;

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Maybe I'll look at doing something along those lines one day. I can't imagine it'd be too difficult. Or maybe something like C's extern, which says "this variable will be defined elsewhere" where elsewhere means a sub class of the current class. Uhm. I'm operating between Abstraction and Interfaces, and its confusing.

Does anyone see any value in this?

-brad..

In reply to Re: Re: Package Variables in Inheritance by reyjrar
in thread Package Variables in Inheritance by reyjrar

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