Given that two respected Perl gurus both thought that this would break, here is a working test with three modules. Foo and Bar are abstract. Baz must implement their abstract methods.

Here is Foo.pm: 

package Foo;
use Carp;

# Import method that checks existence of abstract methods in subclasse
+s.
sub import {
  my $pkg = shift;
  return if $pkg eq __PACKAGE__;
  foreach my $meth ( qw(foo) ) {
    $pkg->can($meth) or croak("Class $pkg does not define method $meth
+");
  }
  $pkg->SUPER::import(@_);
}

1;

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Here is Bar.pm: 
package Bar;
use Carp;
use Foo;
@ISA = qw(Foo);

# Import method that checks existence of abstract methods in subclasse
+s.
sub import {
  my $pkg = shift;
  return if $pkg eq __PACKAGE__;
  foreach my $meth ( qw(bar) ) {
    $pkg->can($meth) or croak("Class $pkg does not define method $meth
+");
  }
  $pkg->SUPER::import(@_);
}

1;

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Here is Baz.pm: 
package Baz;
use Bar;
@ISA = qw(Bar);

sub foo {print "This is method foo\n";}

sub bar {print "This is method bar\n";}

1;

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And then here is the test script: 
use Baz;

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If you comment out either sub in Baz.pm, the program will die immediately.

In reply to Re (tilly) 1 (tests): Abstract class methods by tilly
in thread Interfaces in Perl? by gregorovius

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