I've got an OOP project that has a superclass

package Language;
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and many variants

package Language::English;
1;
package Language::French;
1;
package Language::Italian;
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I need to have a unified function in superclass that can figure out which SubClass is most appropriate

package SuperClass;
sub derive_subclass_for_word {
  my ($word)= @_;
  # test against a regex found in each language, or something like tha
+t
  my $language;
  return $language;
}
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and each of the subclasses would have some standard interface , or make regext available, etc...
The questions I have are this:

• how the do i best register the subclasses with the super? (so the super knows what it can inspect. is this a begin block code? )
• I'd like ( if possible ) to just include the Super - then it looks for subclasses and includes the entire lot. if needed, I could just have the super include every sub - but i'd like to automate this if possible

suggestions?

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