Hi,

I have a moose role and two classes that do it. However, the role uses one of these classes. Is this kind of circularity allowed? I'm getting an error that I don't understand - an instance does a role but can't find a method defined in that role.

I've tried to write the simplest set of code that replicates the problem:

In Hello.pm:

package Hello;

use strict;
use warnings;
use Moose::Role;
use namespace::autoclean;
use Greeting;

sub hello_world {
    print "hello world\n";
}

1;
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In Greeting.pm:

package Greeting;

use strict;
use warnings;
use Moose;
use namespace::autoclean;

with 'Hello';

__PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable;
1;
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In Greeting2.pm:

package Greeting2;

use strict;
use warnings;
use Moose;
use namespace::autoclean;

with 'Hello';

__PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable;
1;
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And then a script test.pl that uses these:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w                                                    
+                                                                     
+                                              

use Greeting2;
use Greeting;

my $greeting = Greeting->new();

print $greeting, "\t", $greeting->does('Hello') ? "does Hello\n" : "do
+es not do Hello\n";
$greeting->hello_world();
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When I run test.pl I get the following error:

Greeting=HASH(0x8e5da40)	does Hello
Can't locate object method "hello_world" via package "Greeting" at ./test.pl line 9.

How come Greeting does Hello but can't locate the hello_world method? If I 'use Greeting' before 'use Greeting2', or if I don't 'use Greeting' in Hello.pm, I don't get the error.

I'd be really grateful if you could point me in the right direction.

Thanks,

Matthew

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