If you assume that the symbol tables of your superclass tree aren't going to change, you could scan them in the same order that perl does (recursively take @ISA from each one and walk up the hierarchy), and thus build up a complete list of possible methods on the subclass.

Since that ordering is documented, you aren't really abusing internals knoweldge to do that.

It seems to me that that should work. It still isn't very nice though. I still like the proxy object, actually. That seems to work pretty well.

Out of interest, may I ask about the the original problem which is being addressed by the automagic wrappering?

In reply to Re^3: Dynamically wrapping ancestor method calls by jbert
in thread Dynamically wrapping ancestor method calls by Limbic~Region

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