That's interesting - and serves as an additional data point that consensus on current perl OO "best practice" is a bit limited at the moment. Yes, TIMTOWDI, but that can be confusing for newcomers.
Do you think that these tutorials are still current? (Actually, I should have linked to these at first, sorry about that).
By the way, would you care to elaborate on base's failure modes? Since you've caused me to look more closely, I can see how it might hurt if you're defining a module inline with the same name as one available as a seperate file via require - is that the main issue?
