isa Foo,Bar; # drops Bar and also spits out warning...
             # works same if you quote Bar, dies if Foo
             # is quoted or we're under strict
That's because it is using indirect object syntax.

Note that you can say: 

isa Bar qw(Baz Bas Boo);

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which is not so nice as there is no way to explain why "Bar" should be specified differently from "Baz", "Bas" and "Boo". Maybe a more consistent way of specifying multiple inheritance would be: 
isa Bar, isa Baz, isa Bas, isa Boo;

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main->isa(qw(Foo Bar)); # makes sense... pushes itself onto
                        # @ISA, though
This can be easily fixed in isa.pm: 
-push @{caller().'::ISA'}, @_;
+push @{caller().'::ISA'}, map {m#^main$# ? () : $_} @_;

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... doesn't seem to be as clean of a solution as it could be.

I agree. I think I'll go back to just setting @ISA myself, and making sure they're run at compile time when I put several packages into one file.

Liz

In reply to Re: Re: package Foo; isa Bar; why not? by liz
in thread package Foo; isa Bar; why not? by liz

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