This ended up calling back to my overridden funcB() method as the hash passed in is blessed into my class.

Yes. Yes it does. That's the way polymorphism works and is nothing specific to Perl. 

package Dog;

sub pull_tail {
  $self->speak;
}

sub speak {
  print "Woof!\n";
}

package AngryDog;

sub speak {
  print "Grrrrr...\n";
}

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What would you expect to happen when you pull an AngryDog's tail? That it would bark (because pull_tail is defined by the base Dog class) or that it would growl (because that's what AngryDogs say)? It's an AngryDog, so it should respond accordingly.

(If you wanted all Dogs to react like a base Dog instead of according to their subclass, you could force them to always use the base Dog::speak by changing the $self->speak line to Dog::speak($self), but that's done very rarely, as there are very few cases where it's what you actually want.)

In reply to Re: Overriding methods and Inheritance by dsheroh
in thread Overriding methods and Inheritance by bamaindk

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