in reply to howto call an overridden sub

to call some method defined on any of the parent classes you can use the SUPER pseudo-package: 
Package Foo ;
use base qw(SomeGeneralSubs) ;

sub close {
 my $obj = shift ; # its all OO
 # do something specific
  ....
 # now call close from 'SomeGeneralSubs'
 $obj->SUPER::close(...)

}

package SomeGeneralSubs ;

sub close {
  ..
}

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Re^2: howto call an overridden sub
by jeanluca (Deacon) on Mar 27, 2006 at 09:37 UTC
    Ok, I assume when you have multiple super classes, like
    use base qw(A B C)

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    it will first try A, then B, etc!

    Luca
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      yes, it does a deep search on the hierarchy tree, so it first looks for the method in A, then in A parents, then in B, etc.
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