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in thread OO-Perl Question: How Do I get a List of derived Classes for a Base Class?

How would the main loop know how to parse the SQL for "new" types of comments?

It's not that hard to see a comment format/regex combination that allows for that.

A regex of m[-- class:(\w+)] for instance would pick out a class name that can be combined with some root to require and instantiate the appropriate subclass if available.

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