in reply to Method calling question...

I can think of a few reasons why this might fail.

First, I don't see any require Foo nor require Bar (or replace require with use).

Second, you can replace @ISA= qw(Base) with use base qw(Base) which has some advantages. But I have more important reasons for mentioning that: On file systems that ignore upper- vs. lower-case in file names, use Base could end up loading base.pm instead of Base.pm, which would also break your code.

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

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use base qw(Base) (was: Method calling question...)
by jplindstrom (Monsignor) on May 01, 2001 at 03:04 UTC
    Second, you can replace @ISA= qw(Base) with use base qw(Base)

    This sounds very interesting. Could you point me to a man page about this (or explain a little more about what Perl mechanism that makes it work)?

    /J

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Re: (tye)Re: Method calling question...
by spaz (Pilgrim) on May 01, 2001 at 03:08 UTC
        "On file systems that ignore upper- vs. lower-case in file names, use Base could end up loading base.pm instead of Base.pm..."

    Uhm, no.

    If the file system is case-insensitive, then Base.pm == base.pm.

    -- Dave
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      Perhaps you neglect to consider that require and use search more than one directory. If Base.pm is in your current directory, then base.pm from the standard Perl install will be found and used instead of your file.

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