Hi,

This must be a trivial question but I couldn't find any answer for it in the archives or by using Google. Here goes...

I want to inherit from a class, and I want my child class' constructor to add some behavior to the parent's. I didn't code the parent class and am not in a position to modify it, which means I can't do the _init() trick.

package Parent;
sub new {
    my $invocant = shift;
    my $class = ref($invocant) || $invocant;
    my $self = {};
    bless $self, $class;
    return $self;
}

package Child;
use base qw(Parent);
sub new {
    # what goes here?
    $self->do_child_specific_stuff();
    return $self;
}

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What code should go into Child::new()? Thanks!

In reply to Overriding constructor by nomis80

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