I must admit that I too have fallen in the @ISA trap. But I wanted to look at your solution to extending an existing module. Not that long ago I was looking at using an OO module (I honestly don't remember which one), but this module didn't have a destructor. Instead, you were required to call some kind of clean up method, lets call it Class::Finish(). Well, I'm not a big fan of making the programmer call something that Perl will happily do for you (if you call the method DESTROY) and so I thought about how to extend the class to add: 
sub DESTROY
{
    my $self = shift;
    $self->Finish();
}

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And the first idea that came to me was your idea of writing a wrapper object. But I didn't like the idea too much. The next idea (and I think this was someone else's idea) was to do it like this: 
{
    package Class;
    sub DESTROY
    {
        my $self = shift;
        $self->Finish();
    }
}

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To replace an already existing method you would only need to add no strict and (5.6+) no warnings within the block. As it turns out, and the more advanced have already made this jump, you can just declare: 
sub Class::DESTROY
{
    my $self = shift;
    $self->Finish();
}

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Aint it grand? :-)

In reply to Re: @ISA, Inheritance, and Class Methods by Adam
in thread @ISA, Inheritance, and Class Methods by clwolfe

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