Hi, I've got a class (say AA) that inherits from another class (say BB). I'ld like to 'proxy' all methods from AA to BB after I modified them slightly (take out 1 argument and process it, so if somebody calls AA->method , AA should catch this, and eventyally call BB->method. I've tried to use AUTOLOAD for this, but that catches undefined methods, not the methods that I want to override. Hope this makes sense (<monthy python>my brain hurts ....</monthy python>) , if not I'll add some code: test.pl: 
use AA;
AA->print("extrainfo","hi");

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AA.pm: 
package AA;

use base 'BB';

sub AUTOLOAD {
        my ($self,$extrainfo,@args ) = @_;
        print "Via AA:\n";
        print "extrainfo: $extrainfo \n";
        $superfunk = "SUPER::$AUTOLOAD";
        $self->$superfunk(@args);
}

1;

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BB.pm 
package BB;

sub print {
        my ($self,$arg) = @_;
        print "I'm BB saying: $arg\n";
}

1;

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AA.pm 
package AA;

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if I run test.pl I'd like it to say 
Via AA:
extrainfo: extrainfo
I'm BB saying: hi

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but it says: 
I'm BB saying: extrainfo

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In reply to AUTOLOAD and inheritance by eXile

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