First, a bit of meta-discussion. You should usually use the [id://...] syntax to link to other nodes. Also, this should probably just be a reply to the original node. If you have reasons for elevating it to a new top-level thread, you should at least mention them.

Now, as to your question itself. Note in the_slycer's original post, he says:

So, one way around this is to write a custom ls subroutine in the Custom::FTP module, but this seems to be "wrong" in that it's not inheritance of any kind, rather it's overriding every routine in the Net::FTP module to simply call the parent class's routine..

It sounds to me that this is exactly what you're proposing. In short, you're suggesting a workaround that he already thought of and rejected.

Update: and after reading the thread, it becomes obvious that this strategy was discussed at length already. Is there something about your post that I am misunderstanding?

In reply to Re: Inheritence confusion contd... by revdiablo
in thread Inheritence confusion contd... by GoCool

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