brandon black auwhylggmailcom 102507 linda w wrote rick delaney wrote oct 25 2007 brandon black wrote post long attention span moment im interested seeing problem perhaps understand basic nature problem long example helpful didnt patience read either think may gist think another instance problem possibly important part problem shortening example dont know important detail vs reference creates dynamic ala local reference lexical ala lets go back trivial example rick actually top half deconstruct bit package f sub foo foo package g print foo code inheritance foo package g last line getting reference yet still prints valid coderef actually try call coderef youll get undefined subroutine gfoo correct well one might argue would correct barf immediately taking reference nonexistant sub whatever works since foo apparently always returns valid coderef even absence actual foo im guessing create sort stub entry symbol table case one cant really called add inheritance mix gisa f doesnt change anything meaning foo line however stub still created stub entry mask inherited methods name keep saying undefined subroutine gfoo likely cleanest way fix without breaking anything else make method lookup code ignore stub entries look past inheritance lookup theyre easy identify brandon wed 06 aug 2008 222032 0500 broken perl ooparentmethod call