I have something like this: 
use Class;
use Class::SubClass;

my $obj = Class->new(...authentication vars...);

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I want to create a subclass instance. Intuitively, I want to write it like this: 
my $subobj = $obj->subclass->new();

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while also being able to call it like this: 
my $subojb = Class::SubClass->new(...authentication vars...);

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Now, I know the former is horrible. It *sort of* works, but it's a cludge. In Class, I need: 
sub subclass {
    my $self = shift;
    return Class::SubClass->new(%{$self});
}

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And then in SubClass, I need to fudge the constructor or at least, that's how I look at it anyway.

Is there a best practice way to do this? I'm probably searching on the wrong term, but I can't seem to get to the meat through the results I find when looking for this.

thoughts?

In reply to sub classing best practice by cLive ;-)

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