I guess what I was missing is that "SUPER" isn't as magical as I thought. I understand that $c->$m($x) is just $m($c, $x) but I was reading "SUPER" as somehow being associated to the class, not being part of the method. To abuse some notation, I was reading "$c->SUPER::get" as more like "($c->SUPER)::get" than like "$c->(SUPER::get)". That's not right; functions are the real things, and classes are the illusion.

At http://perldoc.perl.org/perlobj.html#Method-Invocation it says "...you may use the SUPER pseudo-class to tell Perl to start looking for the method in the packages named in the current class's @ISA list." When I've read that in the past, I guess I thought "current" referred to "that thing just to the left of the '->'" but it means "the thing after 'package' up above".

I feel like I understand better now.

In reply to Re^4: How to get a reference to a superclass method? by mcdave
in thread How to get a reference to a superclass method? by mcdave

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