"Michael S. E. Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Am I asking to higher a level a question to be appropriate for this > list? > > Thanks... > > -Mike
I saw this browsing CPAN the other day... yep: http://search.cpan.org/~mschwern/Class-Virtual-0.04/ Hopefully this will avoid a few bugs you were potentially about to write. Todd W. > > On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 17:35, Michael Kraus wrote: > > G'day... > > > > If a sublass has overrides a method in a superclass, and the subclasses > > method calls the superclass's method, is there any mechanism to detect > > that the superclass' method has been overridden? > > > > > > I'm wanting to write a method in an abstract class that must be > > overriden by it's children. If it is called directly (i.e. without being > > overriden) then it registers an error, but if its called via an > > overriding method then do some common functionality. > > > > I'm guessing there is no in-built functionality for this, and I'll have > > to examine my classes to discover how to test for it myself. Is it > > possible to confirm this? > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>