Hi Liz. Im a little confused why a simple 

package Foo;
BEGIN { @ISA=qw( blah blah blah ); }

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Doesnt cut it in your eye. For me the capitalization, the BEGIN, etc, all make this a much more potent way to write this. Its immediately obvious that "theres some voodoo going on" and what that voodoo is. Your isa approach doesnt tickle my fancy im afraid.

I will say that I agree with your issues with use base. I pretty much dont use it anymore, as I've found there are bizarre situations where it doesnt do what you might expect.

Actually on a less serious level, a module like: 

package CompileTime;
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Which could then be used like: 

use CompileTime @ISA=qw(blah blah blah);

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Which I guess is just a fancy BEGIN without the squiggle brackets. :-)


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

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