Yep, that works perfectly. I had a feeling it was a fundamental mistake. :-)

I now use Frontend directly like this:

  my $obj = Frontend->new;
  $obj->parse($file);

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Frontend inherits from Backend, and Frontend doesn't provide a _parse_ method, so it dispatches it up the chain to Backend. Backend does have this method and starts parsing the file. When it hits a token it calls 

$self->handle(name=>'token_name',args=>['arg1','arg2'])

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which is a generic dispatch mechanism in Backend.

The code for _handle_ is simplified now because it does something like:

if ($self->can($token)) {
  return $self->$token($args);
}

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IOW, it looks for a method with the same name as the token in the current class and when it fails it passes it to Frontend which does implement said method.:-)

In reply to Re^3: OO Parser Class with Callbacks - Confusion by Anonymous Monk
in thread OO Parser Class with Callbacks - Confusion by Anonymous Monk

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