use strict; use warnings; package PrintMe; sub AsStr { my ($self) = @_; return $self->{str}; }; sub new { my ($class, $str) = @_; return bless {str => $str}, $class; } package PrintMeToo; use base 'PrintMe'; sub AsStr { my ($self) = @_; return 'Me too: ' . $self->SUPER::AsStr(); }; package main; my $meToo = PrintMeToo->new('This string'); print $meToo->AsStr();