Re: Extending object you don't create

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Acutally while dws has suggested the best alternative for THIS case, I'm interested in what people might think about the following hack for the more general case: If I put my routines in HTML::ElementEx, and that modify the @HTML::Element::ISA array to contain HTML::ElementEx. Comments?

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Re: Re: Extending object you don't create by dws (Chancellor) on Feb 28, 2001 at 07:14 UTC
If your intent is to subclass `HTML::Element`, then confusing it about what its superclass is will get you into some interesting trouble. Switching out the superclass impacts all subclasses of `HTML::Element`, one of which is `HTML::Parser` Stick with Plan A.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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