"I think you want to make an object whose @ISA includes all the relevant class names (whose methods hopefully do not clash). Or you can call the desired methods as class methods rather than through the object, passing the object as the first argument"

Yes! that is what I'm looking for. I thought about adding each module to the @ISA for what was the parent module already. If I do this, I will be adding close to 200 modules to the @ISA. Will this preload them each time it is loaded or will it load them as each method is called. With the other route, how do call the methods as class methods? Speed is of moderate concern. It doesn't have to be blazingly fast but it can't be slow either

In reply to Re^2: How can I avoid creating two instances of the same object by beachguy82
in thread How can I avoid creating two instances of the same object by beachguy82

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