Okay, a little code sample 

package base;

sub function { }

package derived;

our @ISA = qw|base|;

package main;

derived->function(); # <-- works, not what I want

my $pack = "base";
&{"${pack}::functon"}(); # <-- works, not what I want

$pack = "derived";
&{"${pack}::function"}(); # <-- doesn't work, this is what I want

$pack = "derived";
eval "${pack}->function()"; # <-- works, not what I want

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Hopefully thats pretty self-explanatory. Basically, I want to invoke a package-level method (no objects or blessed references) with inheritance, where I do not know the name of the base class to invoke upon at compile time, but I have it in a scalar at run time. Further, I would like to avoid the use of "eval" if at all possible.

In reply to symbolic reference + inheritance by toddfreed

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