I'm not sure I agree with your definition of "'real' Object Oriented designs". Many (perhaps even most) OO languages don't treat classes as objects themselves. How, then, can SUPER (or its equivalent) be provided as an object when it isn't one? How can it provide a reference to an instance of a base class which is not instantiated (or which instance should be used if there are several)?

Perl makes a firm (though not completely hard) division between objects and classes. I've also worked with languages that make no distinction - all classes are objects and all objects are classes - and can't remember ever running into anything that can be done in one style but not the other.

So what is it that you want to accomplish without creating instances of base classes inside your package? (Probably best to answer in a new post instead of as a comment on this one, though...)

In reply to Re^2: my $self is stumped! by dsheroh
in thread my $self is stumped! by headybrew

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