Thanks for the reply.

It's not that I want to find out which class I've got back (I'd use isa or can for that), but that I want $student->get_random_subject->get_teacher() (etc.) to give me a Lecturer for the deployment that uses Lecturers instead of Teachers, and I want to do this in the cleanest possible way.

The bit-vector idea doesn't really work in the situation that I'm working with where an arbitrary amount of tweaking can be done between deployments (some of which will be mutually incompatible).

Prowler
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