Hmm... really good idea.
Maybe there still is a way to use 'use' (or one line and still keep it at the top)?
I was also thinking of playing around with the BEGIN, INIT, etc. subs in my Plugin class and seeing if anything like that worked.

Even though the dispatch-ness sounds pretty cool, my goal is to have the base module have all the subs.
Lets say package Foo (base) uses Bar (child) as a plugin. Foo's subs would be overwritten by Bar's (limited by, say, an export hash like Exporter uses), thus letting Foo's subs transparently point to Bar's.
Perl code probably explains this better...

foreach (@Bar::PLUGIN_SUBS)
{
  # error checking and the like
  *{"Foo::$_"} = \&{"Bar::$_"};
}

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So I could call Foo::something, but actually (permitting Bar does plug into the 'something' subroutine) Bar::something would be called. Kind of like flattening a tetris board (without the falling pieces) such that, at the end, only the blocks that were originally at the top are now lining the bottom.
(hope that made sense)

In reply to Re^2: Altering Package Subs and Running In To Problems by Bovine
in thread Altering Package Subs and Running In To Problems by Bovine

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