Re: a question on namespaces and inheritance

An object can call a method in any namespace by explicitly stating the namespace of that method:

my $obj = ChildClass1->new;
$obj->ChildClass2::method(...);
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In addition, classes should not "export methods". The only functions that should be exported are non-object-associated.

Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart

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Re^2: a question on namespaces and inheritance by salva (Canon) on Jun 03, 2005 at 10:10 UTC
An object can call a method in any namespace by explicitly stating the namespace of that method Just because you can it doesn't mean it is a good idea to do so... actually, I found it rather a bad idea to call a method on an object that's not related via an is-a relation to the method package. The obvious solution for the OP problem is to move the common methods to the base class or to use a mixin class.	[reply]
Re^3: a question on namespaces and inheritance by japhy (Canon) on Jun 03, 2005 at 13:38 UTC
I would disagree, if the classes are his design. If he knows the class structure, he should be able to do this confidently. Jeff `japhy` Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and `perl` hacker How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart	[reply]