Greetings Monasteers, I am having a battle with object inheritance, specifically the problem that @ISA doesn't bequeath subs/functions only methods. I wanted to derive everything from Class::PObject so it would be nicely storable, but I think my mastery of OO Perl is wanting. Starting at the top,

#!/usr/bin/perl

package myStorableBase;

use Class::PObject;

my @basedef = ["id", "name", "email", "phone"];

pobject                     # pobj is a persistent object
    {                    # can be saved and loaded
    columns => @basedef,            # the entries
    driver => 'db_file',            # to a db file normal unix
    datasource => "./data"                  # in this place
    };



sub thingysub
{
my $whatever = shift;
return 1;
}

1;
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Which gives me a myStorable that I am happy with. In another file we have,

#!/usr/bin/perl

package MyHuman;

use myStorableBase;
@ISA = ("myStorableBase");
# I am one of those cocky little monkeys with the hands and the fire a
+nd the little green
# pieces of paper. (aka 'Ugly Bag of mostly-water')
#

1;
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Human has a number of attributes and accessor/inspector methods that I've stripped out for clarity. However when I use myHuman I can's save the blighter, because it seems myHuman knows nothing about the subclass Class::PObject::DBM from which it gets its save(). I'm also confused becasue PObject doesn't seem to have a new constructor, it constructs a new instance using a subroutine 'pobject()' which I think is the source of all my woes. I need a PObject master, the docs don't say a lot about subclassing. Beat me with a cluebat! (or some more advanced Perl OO reading links) Cheers, Andy

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