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I'm quite new at OO and OO Perl so I may not quite grasp the problem but this looks like a good use of TheDamian's NEXT module. It basically allows your object to dispatch a method to all other objects in the hierarchy. The following code shows an example of how this might be done.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

use NEXT;

package Base;
sub new
{
    print "Base new\n";
    my $proto = shift;
    my $class = ref($proto) || $proto;
    my $self = {};
    bless ($self,$class);
    return $self;
}
sub Base::method
{    
    my $self = shift;
    my $data = shift || 0;
    print "$self: Base method, data = $data\n"; 
    return 'Base';
}
sub Base::DESTROY
{
    my $self = shift;
    print "$self: Base DESTROY\n";
}


package A;
use base qw(Base);
sub new
{
    print "A new\n";
    my $proto = shift;
    my $class = ref($proto) || $proto;
    my $self = {};
    bless ($self,$class);
    return $self;
}
sub A::method
{
    my $self = shift;
    my $data = shift || 0;
    print "$self: A method, data = $data\n"; 
    return 'A' if $data =~ /A/; #it's my data, so handle it
    $self->NEXT::ACTUAL::method($data); #otherwise dispatch to the nex
+t class
}
sub A::DESTROY
{
    my $self = shift;
    print "$self: A DESTROY\n";
    $self->NEXT::UNSEEN::DESTROY();
}

package B;
use base qw(A);
sub new
{
    print "B new\n";
    my $proto = shift;
    my $class = ref($proto) || $proto;
    my $self = {};
    bless ($self,$class);
    return $self;
}
sub B::method
{    
    my $self = shift;
    my $data = shift || 0;
    print "$self: B method, data = $data\n";
    return 'B' if $data =~ /B/; #it's my data, so handle it
    $self->NEXT::ACTUAL::method($data); #otherwise, dispatch to next c
+lass;
}
sub B::DESTROY
{
    my $self = shift;
    print "$self: B DESTROY\n";
    $self->NEXT::UNSEEN::DESTROY();
}


package main;

my $obj = new B();

#this one will be handled by Base
print "calling method with generic data\n";
my $return = $obj->method('foo data');
print "return value was $return\n";

#this one will get handled by A
print "calling method with A's data\n";
$return = $obj->method('A data');
print "return value was $return\n";

#this one will get handled by B
print "calling method with B's data\n";
$return = $obj->method('B data');
print "return value was $return\n";
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When run this produces:

B new
calling method with generic data
B=HASH(0xa01116c): B method, data = foo data
B=HASH(0xa01116c): A method, data = foo data
B=HASH(0xa01116c): Base method, data = foo data
return value was Base
calling method with A's data
B=HASH(0xa01116c): B method, data = A data
B=HASH(0xa01116c): A method, data = A data
return value was A
calling method with B's data
B=HASH(0xa01116c): B method, data = B data
return value was B
B=HASH(0xa01116c): B DESTROY
B=HASH(0xa01116c): A DESTROY
B=HASH(0xa01116c): Base DESTROY
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Read the NEXT docs for details on how this works and the UNSEEN and ACTUAL parameters.

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