looks like I'm on my own with a lovely opportunity to write a storable class from the top on my own

I think you'd be better off just patching Class::PObject to handle this situation.

Something like the following should do the trick: 

sub Class::PObject::Template::__props {
    my $self = shift;
    my @isa = ref($self) || $self;
    while ( scalar @isa ) {
        my $target = shift @ISA;
        no strict 'refs';
        if ( my $props = ${ $target . '::props' } ) {
            return $props;
        } else {
            push @isa, @{ $target . '::ISA' }
        }
    }
}

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Inheriting from Class::PObject by simonm
in thread Can't inherit subroutines - workaround? by Anonymous Monk

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