If dieing at runtime isn't good enough for you, I would assume you do not have tests to catch your errors before running your code 'in the wild'.

While it would be a much better idea to integrate a test suite into your development, I believe it will be possible to get the results you want without taking that step.

You might want to try something like this (untested) code.

package My::Base;
use strict;

sub new {
  my $class = shift;
  die "Override must_be_overridden" 
    if ($class->can('must_be_overridden') == \&must_be_overridden);
}

sub must_be_overridden {
  die "Cannae call this method - Override me!";
}

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Please note that as this uses can it will not work well if you are using AUTOLOADER

In reply to Re: Java Style Interface Objects? by Tuppence
in thread Java Style Interface Objects? by pileofrogs

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