Have you considered evaling the subroutines you want to overwrite? For example, here is a class that can have its foo method overwritten: 
package MyPack;
use strict;

sub new($$)
{
    my $invocant = shift;
    my $class = ref($invocant) || $invocant;
    my $self = { };
    bless($self, $class);
    return $self;
}

sub foo($)
{
    my $self = shift;
    print "foo is unmodified.\n";
}

sub changeFoo($)
{
    my $line;
    my $code;
    while ($line = <DATA>) {
        $code .= $line;
    }
    eval $code;
}

1;

__DATA__

sub foo($) 
{
    my $self = shift; 
    print "foo has been modified.\n";
}

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Here's some code to test it: 
use MyPack;
use strict;

my $obj = MyPack->new();
$obj->foo();
$obj->changeFoo();
$obj->foo();

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The output is 
foo is unmodified.
foo has been modified.

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Of course, there's no reason for the changing code to be in DATA; it can just as easily be in a seperate file.

-ton
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In reply to Re: Dynamic object extensions by ton
in thread Dynamic object extensions by jepri

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