Suprising yes. Weird only sortof. This is documented behaviour, if a little counter intuitive:

If you're trying to control where the method search begins and you're executing in the class itself, then you may use the SUPER pseudo class, which says to start looking in your base class's @ISA list without having to name it explicitly: 

    $self->SUPER::display('Height', 'Weight');

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Please note that the SUPER:: construct is meaningful only within the class.

from PerlObj, emphasis added

My guess why, and its only a guess, is that Perl resolves SUPER at compile time. It doesnt care about the object at all as that happens at runtime. OTOH, that explanation gives me a funny feeling, @ISA is being set at runtime so I am confused.

Yves
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In reply to Re: Re: Re: can('SUPER::defaults') by demerphq
in thread can('SUPER::defaults') by kwoff

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