Re^2: Calling chains, extends, and subclassing

The alias deal doesn't seem to be an apt suggestion for a few reasons,

It would require me to subclass all three packages, rather than just the select ones I wanted to subclass
Even if I wanted to subclass the three modules, unless subclass exported and poluted the namespace of every other package (superclass), it would seem as if I would have to have totally redundant code

So now in the subclass, I would have something like

##Non redundant code
use aliased 'NHB::QuizMaster::Custom::NHMCCD::Question';

##Totally redundant code
sub new_question {
  my $self = shift;
  my $question = new Question( @_ ); Question->new(@_);

  push @{ $self->questions }, $question;

  $question;
}

I'm guessing that the alias doesn't affect the superclass

Evan Carroll
www.EvanCarroll.com

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Re^3: Calling chains, extends, and subclassing by diotalevi (Canon) on Oct 04, 2006 at 15:53 UTC
You said "`new Question`" which you already know is ass. Don't be an idiot, don't do that. aliased isn't a structural thing - it means you don't have to use long class names in your code. It doesn't solve any subclassing or other interface problems. I suggested that you trash your entire idea to do @ISA evil and get to nirvana through syntactic sugar. ⠤⠤ ⠙⠊⠕⠞⠁⠇⠑⠧⠊	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Calling chains, extends, and subclassing by EvanCarroll (Chaplain) on Oct 04, 2006 at 17:07 UTC
Please do tell me how Syntactic sugar eliminates the need to statically type the class, or how I can accomplish that. (And I am thankfull that Alias would make it shorter, but I'm aiming for non-existant here) I really don't want to have to override a sub just for a new statically typed class) Evan Carroll www.EvanCarroll.com	[reply]