Monks,

Today I was examining a method in my codebase and I wanted to test changes to it, so I overloaded the method using the glob operator like so.

#!perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use foo::bar;

my $bar = foo::bar->new;

$bar->foo;  # prints "FOO!"

*foo::bar::foo = sub { my $self = shift; $self->SUPER::foo; };

$bar->foo; # results in "Can't locate object method \"foo\" via packag
+e \"main\" at foo.pl line 12

pacakge foo;

use strict;
use warnings;

sub foo {
  print "FOO!";
}

1;

package foo::bar;

use strict;
use warnings;

use base 'foo';

sub new {
  my $class = shift;
  my $self  = {};
  bless $self, $class;
  return $self;
}

sub foo {
  my $self = shift;
  # Set some attributes on $self - not done in overloaded method
  $self->SUPER::foo;
}

1;
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What's going on here? It seems that when sub foo() was redefined, calls to SUPER were passed to main. I dumped @ISA for both sub calls and it's unchanged.

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