You're not going to want to hear this - there is no easy way in Perl5 to do this. In Perl6, this is really easy - you simply redispatch and the dispatcher knows which method to check next. (I actually asked Larry about this situation prior to A12.)

The best thing I can think of is to write your own method dispatcher. This would only work with methods that have a void signature. Maybe something like: 

sub find_funcs
{
    my $class = shift;
    my $meth = shift;
    exists ${$class}{$meth}{SUB};
}

sub dispatch_method
{
    my $self = shift;
    my $meth = shift;
    my @args = @_;

    no strict 'refs';
    my $pkg = ref($self);

    # Recursively find the packages that have the $meth function defin
+ed
    # Call them in whatever order you want to define
}

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Or, something like that. :-)

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I shouldn't have to say this, but any code, unless otherwise stated, is untested

In reply to Re: Multiple Inheritence, Munging @ISA by dragonchild
in thread Multiple Inheritence, Munging @ISA by japhy

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