Hi,

Recently I faced with following problem in the project which I develop. Let's say I have three classes: A, B and C. A is a base class for B and C and contains common fields: 

package A;

use strict;

use fields qw(id name);

sub new {
 ...
}

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Classes B and C inherit class A: 
package B;

use strict;

use base qw(A);
use fields qw(addr phone city);

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and 
package C;

use strict;

use base qw(A);
use fields qw(model type);

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As I understand when I create an object B it should inherit properties from the base class - id and name. Sure, it works fine till I need to create inside object B object C and and vice versa. But to do that I have to add statement 
use C;

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into class B and and vice versa. Right after that the problems start. When I create a new object B it doesn't contain thr properties from the base class. The same for object C.

I "solved" it using require instead of use. Another possibility make preloading all custom modules before use it. Any others ideas or suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Updated: fixed class C definition.

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Michael Stepanov aka nite_man

It's only my opinion and it doesn't have pretensions of absoluteness!

In reply to Cross reference between two classes and FIELDS by nite_man

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