in reply to How to do basic inheritance in Perl OO?

You want use base 'AGENT'; or something like @TOOLS::ISA = ('AGENT');

use AGENT; on its own just loads (if necessary) and imports from (if any exports exist in) AGENT.

Update: Yikes, that's @ISA, not @isa, of course.

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