Re: RFC 189 (v1) Objects : Hierarchical calls to initializers anddestructors

[Damian Conway]

   > The "multiple inheritance paths" one is good. I like that part a lot.
   > But the rest makes me really nervous if there's no way to override or
   > change it.

There is. I'll try and get the C<use delegation> RFC out today.


   > One thing nobody's brought up is this: What if you decide you want the
   > standard Perl 5 bless behavior, and you want to tweak the order of
   > calls. So, you don't define a SETUP. BUT, the author of a module you're
   > inheriting from defined a SETUP, not to your knowledge? This gets called
   > automatically by bless(), with no way to override it, either making you
   > manually undo it all or decide not to subclass it anymore. This is bad.

Delegation support will make "not subclassing" it trivial.

Damian