These question suggest that there are some basics about Perl OO that you're missing.

Absolutely! I've spent two years in JavaLand, and forgotten all the nifty Perl stuff that was in my head..

Unfortunately, to the last point, if %ENTITIES is a "my" variable in MathML::Entities, you can't access it directly without "breaking the rules"...

I can't even access it to make a copy, can I? - no way of making %M::E::A::ENTITIES ?

If I understand it correctly, if %ENTITIES was an "our" variable, I could have added data to it - and the E::M methods would have accessed the now-longer-hash, yes?



-- Ian Stuart
A man depriving some poor village, somewhere, of a first-class idiot.

In reply to Re^2: Modifying/extending a superclass' data by kiz
in thread Modifying/extending a superclass' data by kiz

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