hi all,
maybe my qestion is dull, but since i'm not sure about the answer, i think i better let you blame me rather than doing it by myself...

imagine an inheritance tree like this one: 
                MotherClass
                  /   \
                 /     \
                /       \
        ChildClass1   ChildClass2

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quite simple so far. imagine further that MotherClass provides all children with a common constructor, so that all children look somehow like: 
package MotherClass::ChildClass1;

use strict;
use vars qw/@ISA/;

use MotherClass;
@ISA = qw/MotherClass/;

sub new {
   my ($class, $args) = @_;
   my $self = $class->SUPER::new($args);
   ...
}

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still simple. imagine still further, that in ChildClass1 some object methods are defined, which i like to use in ChildClass2 - but that there are signifant reasons speaking against inheriting Child2 from Child1, but from the Mother instead. So, my questions are:
1.)am i right with the assumption, that inheriting ChildClass2 from both ChildClass1 and MotherClass may lead the compiler to complain about a "deep recursion"? (multiple inheritance would be the easy way of importing the methods from Child1.)
2.)since the methods i want to import into Child2's namespace are object methods, i have some doubts, whether the following construct would work: 
package MotherClass::ChildClass2;

use strict;
use vars qw/@ISA/;

use MotherClass;
@ISA = qw/MotherClass/;

use MotherClass::ChildClass1;

...

sub object_method { MotherClass::ChildClass1::object_method(@_) }

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maybe i should mention, that Child1 does not export the method.

i hope someone of you can shed some light on this (and me. :).

language is a virus from outer space.

In reply to a question on namespaces and inheritance by thcsoft

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