All,
I was looking on another Perl forum when I noticed an interesting question. Basically, is there a module that simplifies the same method call on a list of objects: 
$obj_multi->new( $obj_1, $obj_2 );
$obj_multi->foo();                  # $obj_1->foo();  $obj_2->foo();

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I whipped this up real quick: 
package MultiMethod;
use strict;
use warnings;
use vars '$AUTOLOAD';

sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    my $self  = \@_;
    return bless $self , $class;
}

sub DESTROY { return; }

sub AUTOLOAD {
    my $self = shift;
    if ( $AUTOLOAD =~ /::([^:]+)$/ ) {
        $_->$1(@_) for @$self;
    }
}
42;

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Which I knew wasn't perfect. There is no error checking and there is also likely issues with ref counting and what not. Then it hit me, there is no need for a module: 
MultiMethod( 'methodname', [], $file, $file2 );

sub MultiMethod {
    my $method = shift;
    my $args   = shift;
    $_->$method(@$args) for @_;
}

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Finally, I promised I would ask around at the Monastery and update with any useful feedback. So how would you do it? Keeping in mind that you want it to be re-useable and as user friendly as possible.

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Method Calls on multiple objects by Limbic~Region

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