Re: difference between "use base" and @ISA?

What about:

BEGIN { 
    require 'Foo';
    @ISA = ('Foo');
}
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Does that work? base does its @ISA munging at compile-time, so CGI::Application::Plugin::AutoRunmode may be dependent on that.

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Re^2: difference between "use base" and @ISA? by CountZero (Bishop) on Aug 25, 2005 at 16:00 UTC
`@ISA = ('Foo');` will destroy whatever was already in `@ISA` and will surely break a lot of other things depending on that array. CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: difference between "use base" and @ISA? by sgifford (Prior) on Aug 25, 2005 at 16:16 UTC
My understanding has always been that `@ISA` is a package global, so the only way it would have something in it is if it were set elsewhere in the same package, which would be a pretty strange thing to do. In other words, it's safe to overwrite it in your own package. I think friedo's code is fine, but I'd be happy to learn otherwise if there's something I'm missing.	[reply] [d/l]