in reply to plugins and inheritance

If you want the reverse of inheritance, then reverse the inheritance. Have each plug-in do: 

unshift @MainPackageIReplace::ISA, __PACKAGE__;

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I use unshift rather than push since I assume that you want a newly loaded plug-in to override a previously loaded plug-in.

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

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Re: (tye)Re: plugins and inheritance
by dash2 (Hermit) on Mar 08, 2001 at 17:36 UTC
    Nice idea, but that wouldn't actually override functions in the main package, would it? E.g. 
    package MainOne;
sub foo { ...}

package NewPlugin;
unshift @MainOne::ISA, __PACKAGE__;

sub foo { warn "new plugin!" ... }

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    Now calls to MainOne::Foo would still go to MainOne itself, right? You could provide new functions with this idea, but not override existing ones.

    dave hj~

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