Re^3: Altering Package Subs and Running In To Problems

That's true, but the author of Sybase::DBlib has said on a number of occasions that it is very hard to subclass for a number of reasons. This can be confirmed by trying!

Apparently the latest version which either just got to CPAN or is just about to includes some changes which will make subclassing easier.

So if all you want to do is, say, add a few methods - then something like I suggested is a good way to do it.

In most situations your advice is, of course, correct.

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Re^4: Altering Package Subs and Running In To Problems by mpeppler (Vicar) on Nov 12, 2004 at 13:44 UTC
Err - I think you're confusing DBI and Sybase::DBlib... As I'm the author of Sybase::DBlib I suppose I should know :-) Michael	[reply]
Re^5: Altering Package Subs and Running In To Problems by aufflick (Deacon) on Jan 11, 2005 at 00:19 UTC
Heh. Well, I wasn't confusing the two, but yes I suppose you should know! I'm sure I saw a mailing list message from you saying that SybaseDBlib was hard to subclass for unspecified reasons, but that newer versions would be better? Not that it matters...	[reply]