On Feb 7, 2004, at 10:02 AM, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
On Feb 7, Jan Eden said:
{ package Mouse @ISA = qw{Animal}; ... sub speak { my $class = shift; ... Animal::speak($class); ... } }
I was about to ask why it's written this way, but upon checking the source, I see that this is the way the first example on overriding a method looks.
I was going to ask this too. I'm glad I finished reading the email.
I'm not familiar with the book though, so I will ask this? Does it eventually go on to introduce SUPER::? That's what I would prefer here and I just want to make sure you're aware of the option.
Hmm, I think a good exercise would be to write code snippets to demonstrate the differences between the four method calls:
Package::method() $class->method() $class->Package::method() $class->SUPER::method()
or five if you count:
method Package ...
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