On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Mark Fowler wrote:
<snip>
> You shouldn't. Really. You should subclass the other method.
>
> package Foo;
> use base qw(Bar);
>
> sub fred
> {
> my $self = shift;
> $self->wibble;
> $self->wobble;
> }
>
> Then:
>
> use Foo;
> my $foo = Foo->new(); # the new method is called automatically in Bar.
Assuming that the developer of the original module properly used the 2
argument form of bless.... Ran into something a while back where was
trying to extend a module, and I spent about 1.5 hours figuring out why my
additions weren't working, until I realized that the base module was using
single-argument bless....grr!
Mark.
