I think that you are manually implementing inheritance. The following code: 
use strict;
use warnings 'all';

package A;

sub _write_file {
        print "Writing in package A\n";
}

sub write_file {
        my $self = shift;
        $self->_write_file(@_);
}

package A::B;
use base qw/A/;

sub new {
        my $class = shift;
        bless {} => $class;
}

sub _write_file {
        print "Writing in package A::B\n";
}

my $writer = A::B->new;
$writer->write_file;

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prints "Writing in package A::B" (followed by a newline, of course!), which seems to be what you want. The point is that, even though write_file is a method in package A, it's calling _write_file on an object blessed into package A::B. Am I misunderstanding what you're trying to do?

In reply to Re: Using can With Inheritance by JadeNB
in thread Using can With Inheritance by btrott

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