I'm having great difficulty overriding the "_connect" method of the Net::ParseWhois module. Chances are that I'm just a dolt and need to understand objects more prior to diving in like this, but I've read through "Tom's Object Oriented Tutorial for Perl," and it lead me to believe that I can just do: 
package MyParseWhois;
require 5.004;
use strict;

use Carp;
use vars qw/@ISA/;

@ISA = ("Net::ParseWhois");

sub _connect {

# My proxy connect code here....

}

1;

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Now, when I do this and then try and drop in "use MyParseWhois" in place of "use Net::ParseWhois" it just doesn't work. If I omit the "use Carp" I get messload of errors, but even with it in I still get an error: 
my $w = MyParseWhois::Domain->new($dom);

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Error: "Can't locate object method "new" via package "MyParseWhois::Domain" at whois.pl line 8."

When "MyParseWhois" is changed back to "Net::ParseWhois" it works fine, but then it is not what I need. Now, I _know_ that this has got to be simple enough, but I've read and re-read the tutorial and it's just not working as described. There must be something that I am not seeing. Could someone please set me straight? I'm really only just getting into Objects and such, and I'm sure that I will eventually make sense of this, but for the moment I need my whois script working! Please almighty Perl Monks, help me see the light!

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In reply to Stupid Subclassing Question- Net::ParseWhois by pray2s8n

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