Am I missing something?

Inside Perl 5, a reference only has one slot to associate it with a class. You can replace that association by blessing the reference into a different class, but there's only ever one class associated with a reference.

I don't know what object system you're thinking of, but this is how Perl 5 has worked since the beginning. Test it and see:

package Grandkid;

use parent 'Kid';

sub new { bless {}, shift }

package Kid;

use parent 'Parent';

package Parent;

sub inherited_method { 'Yep, inherited!' }

package main;

use Test::More 'no_plan';

my $gkid = Grandkid->new();
isa_ok( $gkid, 'Grandkid' );
isa_ok( $gkid, 'Kid' );
isa_ok( $gkid, 'Parent' );
is( $gkid->inherited_method(), 'Yep, inherited!', 'method inherited fr
+om grandparent' );

done_testing();

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In reply to Re^3: blessed confusion by chromatic
in thread blessed confusion by perl-diddler

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