I have a bunch of methods in a base class, and cycle through some of them in a sub-class using can(), and I wanted to see if this would work to skip some of them:
package Foo;
use strict;
use warnings;

sub foo { print "foo\n" }
sub bar {
  my $class = shift;
  if ( my $f = $class->can("foo") ) {
    print "yes, I can foo\n";
    $f->();
  }
}

package Bar;
use strict; use warnings;

our @ISA = "Foo";

sub foo;

package main;
use strict; use warnings;

Bar->bar();

# OUTPUT:
yes, I can foo
Undefined subroutine &Bar::foo called at ./test_foo line 17.

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I know there are other ways to accomplish what I want, but what do you think would be the best way, and would you condsider the above behaviour to be a bug? For now, I'm just declaring an empty foo() function in Bar:
sub foo {}

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Update: moved bar() to better simulate actual code.
Maybe "disinherit" would be a better word :-)

In reply to Attempt to uninherit method by runrig

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