This is an embarassingly simple question, but its after 5 and my brain is dead. Google and the perl objects book are no help...

Today I refactored and abstracted 3 similar modules I had into one parent class and 3 subclassed. It cut down about half the code. Woo hoo.

Then I realized a shortcoming of my solution. Each of the subclasses has its own version of a certain variable. 
package abstracted;
our $name = 'parent';
package abstracted::versionA;
our $name = 'vA';
package abstracted::versionB;
our $name = 'vB';

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A shared method moved into the parent class accesses $name. Naturally, it keeps pulling $abstracted::name , while i want $abstracted::versionA::name .

There are 2 ways I can think of solving this:
1. sub new { $self->{'__name'} = \$name }
2. my $name = eval( '\$' . ( ref $self ) . '::name' )
solution #1 is probably better, but i'm trying to cut down on vars i'm tossing in $self -- i'm just tossing too much in there to get things done.

solution #2 is a dirty hack , and probably wildly ineffient - but i only have to modify my code on 1 line ( vs setting the var in 3 sep. constructors )

does anyone have a suggestion or can share an idiomatic way to accomplish this?

In reply to Accessing class/subclass variables by nmerriweather

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