Scenario:

I install Foo:Bar from CPAN (perl -MCPAN -eshell, etc.). I write my code -- 

my $baz = Foo::Bar->new();
$baz->do_magic;

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Then I discover that $baz->do_magic does about 90% of what I want. So, I want to modify it, but I don't want to tinker with the Foo::Bar code. I do the following in my package. 

package My::Package;
..
lots of code
..

package Foo::Bar;
# my version of do_magic
sub do_magic {
}
# end of my tinkering with Foo::Bar

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Question: Is this the right way? Perl does complain and tell me that do_magic has been redefined, but yeah, that's what I did. If this is not a good way, what is the better way?

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In reply to The correct way to redefine a routine by punkish

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