It sounds like you're taking the wrong approach. One of the selling points of inheritance is that your child classes behave just like the parent classes (at least interface-wise), and are therefore interchangeable (polymorphism).

If you're looking to simplify the interface to the base class, I wouldn't use inheritance at all. Make a new class as a wrapper around the more complicated class, sort of like the facade design pattern.

Example: 

package ComplicatedClass;

sub new { my $class = shift; return bless {}, $class; }
sub method1 { print "This is method 1\n"; }
sub method2 { print "This is method 2\n"; }
..
sub method99 { print "This is method 99\n"; }
sub method100 { print "This is method 100\n"; }

package SimpleClass;

sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    my $cc = new ComplicatedClass;
    return bless { cc => $cc }, $class;
}

sub method1 { 
    my $self = shift;
    $self->{cc}->method1;
}

sub method42 { 
    my $self = shift;
    $self->{cc}->method42;
}

sub method99 { 
    my $self = shift;
    $self->{cc}->method99;
}


package main;

my $obj = new SimpleClass;

$obj->method1;
$obj->method42;
$obj->method99;

$obj->method2; # Can't locate object method "method2" via package "Sim
+pleClass"

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In reply to Re: Inherit only few methods from a parent class by lostjimmy
in thread Inherit only few methods from a parent class by Anonymous Monk

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