I never said I recommend it, just that I don't highly recommend it. Yes, it is a rude thing to do. But the request was "I have created a new 20-25 methods to add to the MP3::Napster.pm module", "wihout modifying the parent". Seems like a pretty rude thing to want to do.

If one is going to be rude, one might as well be rude in a very simple way than in a complex way.

Note that it is "unrude" in that

• If you don't require the new module(s), then MP3::Napster is completely unaffected.
• Anything that MP3::Napster already inherits from takes precedence over these new module(s) because I used push and not unshift (and because I force MP3::Napster to be initialized before I do the push).

So I'm on the fence as to whether one should ever do what I wrote or what was originally asked for, but I don't understand why you would need to do that. I'd probably create a separate class that inherits from both MP3::Napster and these new modules.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")