I am trying to use multiple inheritance in Perl, but I cannot figure out how to call multiple parent constructors from a child constructor.
A.pm:
package A;
use Carp qw (croak);
use strict;
use warnings;
sub new {
my $class = shift;
print "This is A new\n";
my $self->{DEV_TYPE} = shift || "A";
bless($self, $class);
return $self;
}
sub a_func{
print "This is A func\n";
}
1;
B.pm:
package B;
use Carp qw (croak);
use strict;
use warnings;
sub new {
my $class = shift;
print "This is B new\n";
my $self->{DEV_TYPE} = shift || "B";
bless($self, $class);
return $self;
}
sub b_func{
print "This is B func\n";
}
1;
C.pm:
package C;
use Carp qw (croak);
use strict;
use warnings;
eval "use A";
die $@ if $@;
eval "use B";
die $@ if $@;
our @ISA = ("A","B");
sub new {
my $class = shift;
my $self = $class->SUPER::new(@_);
print "This is C new\n";
$self->{DEV_TYPE} = shift || "C";
bless($self, $class);
return $self;
}
sub c_func{
print "This is C func\n";
}
1;
B C::new, $class->SUPER::newdoes not call the constructor for B. If I call it explicitly with $class->B::new(@_);, I get an error
Unable to find object method "new" through package "B" under C.pm
What am I doing wrong?
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