Thanks! This is brilliant. I didn't know about h2xs -AXc -n, so that itself is a great tip. The only issue I have with your approach is that Foo and Bar are inherited from Foobar, which works against the mental model I had of this. In my mental model, Foobar was inherited from Foo as well as from Bar. As JavaFan termed it, it was multiple inheritance I was after. Your approach requires in foo.pl 

use FooBar::Foo.pm
use FooBar::Bar.pm

[download]

I want the user to be shielded from the inner workings of Foobar. So, as far as the user is concerned, only the following should be required in foo.pl 

use Foobar;

[download]

That way I can add more "parents" to Foobar in the future, if required. For example, I could modify Foobar to inherit from Baz.pm as well, but the user would not have to change foo.pl.

All that said, many thanks for your very clear explanation.

--

when small people start casting long shadows, it is time to go to bed

In reply to Re^2: Extending objects by punkish
in thread Extending objects by punkish

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.