Fellow Monks,

How does one go to extend a base class that's implemented by means of a closure?

I have a base class in which the constructor initializes three fields

the base class

# constructor sub new { my $class = shift; my $self = { NAME => undef, ADDRESS => undef, PHONE => undef, }; my $closure = sub { my $field = shift; if (@_) { $self->{$field} = shift; } return $self->{$field}; }; bless( $closure, $class ); return $closure; }

I'd like to extend this class and add two more fields:

the extended class

# constructor sub new { my $class = shift; my $self = { CELLULAR => undef, EMAIL => undef, }; my $closure = sub { my $field = shift; if (@_) { $self->{$field} = shift; } return $self->{$field}; }; bless( $closure, $class ); return $closure; }

How do I make the extended class call the constructor of the base class and make sure that the two new fields are added at the same time?

I searched but couldn't find any documentation about this, not on perl monks, not on google :(

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In reply to OO: extending a closure object by gargle

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