Hi,

I'm newbie with problems with basic understanding of object programming under perl.
I have parent class called Tinia_CanExtender and inherited class of Tinia_CanPwm. I have set method defined in parent class and no definition in child class. Now if I call set method on child's class instance, call goes to set method of parent object but with reference to child instance. Now in this method I'd like to get reference to parent object Tinia_CanExtender and do some operations on its data.
I have:
package Tinia_CanPwm;

@Tinia_CanPwm::ISA = qw (Tinia_CanExtender);

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.... in Tinia_CanExtender ......
sub set {
    my ($self, $state,$set_by) = @_;

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Now $self points to child instance, but I'd like to get reference to parent instance out of it. Can I do that ?
Another question: Can I tie(inherit) child objects to/from particular instance of parent class ?

Thanks in advance,

Robert.

In reply to Objects: how to get parent object from child $self reference ? by Anonymous Monk

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