The "::" makes it look like a procedural interface call, but it is a bona fide OO method call, with an implicit instance (or package name) as first argument and all; a rather different animal from the similar-looking (and wrong) Grandpa::hello().

I think that: 

$me->Grandpa::hello()

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is the same as: 

Grandpa::hello($me);

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which isn't OO. You can test it like so: 

use strict;
package other;

sub hello { print "otherwise @{[ref shift]}\n"; }

package Grandpa;
sub hello {
  my $class = ref $_[0] || $_[0];
  print "How do you do, from $class.\n";
}

package Dad;
our @ISA = 'Grandpa';
sub hello {
  my $class = ref $_[0] || $_[0];
  print "Hiya from $class!\n";
}

package Me;
our @ISA = 'Dad';

sub new { bless {} }

sub hello { print "hello\n"; }

package main;

my $me = bless {}, 'Me';         # look Ma, no constructor!
$me->Grandpa::hello;
$me->other::hello;

__END__
How do you do, from Me.
otherwise Me

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hth

In reply to Re: Skipping the middle man & the SUPER gotcha by Thelonious
in thread Skipping the middle man & the SUPER gotcha by tlm

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