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in reply to Re: goto superclass method
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This is an infinite loop
It's an infinite loop, but not for the reasons you state. SUPER:: is always relative to __PACKAGE__, and when you start saying sub Foo::bar, the __PACKAGE__ doesn't change to Foo, so you have a problem with SUPER.

In short, Don't Do That. Properly written code works properly:

package Base; sub do_me { my $self = shift; print "Base do_me\n"; } package Derived; @ISA = qw(Base); sub do_me { my ($self) = @_; # no shift, so we can goto print "About to jump...\n"; goto &{$self->can("SUPER::do_me")}; } package main; Derived->do_me;

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