Thanks for looking Simon, you are quite right, I was muddled about the constructor, of course pobject makes the class and its instantiated with the usual new().

Can you explain a little bit more what you mean by 'delegate' in a Perl sense, because the save() method I am after is, being file/system specific, somewhere in that Class::PObject::Driver::DBM I presume.

When I dump the keys and methods that I get with myHuman I see everything intrinsic to myHuman, and the columns hash from PObject, but the save() method has got lost.

Iyho would I be better _deriving_ a new class (however one does that in Perl) or hacking about with import / exports or just writing my own storable object from the top.

I just found a snippet that lets me recurse up through all the parents @ISAs so it might help me debug where the reference to save is getting lost.
btw, yes its the latest PObject I could find installed less than a week ago. Thanks Simon,
Andy

In reply to Re: Re: Can't inherit subroutines - workaround? by Anonymous Monk
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