- NAME
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# NAME

base - Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time

# SYNOPSIS

        package Baz;
        use base qw(Foo Bar);

# DESCRIPTION

Roughly similar in effect to

        BEGIN {
            require Foo;
            require Bar;
            push @ISA, qw(Foo Bar);
        }

Will also initialize the `%FIELDS` hash if one of the base classes has it. Multiple inheritance of `%FIELDS` is not supported. The 'base' pragma will croak if multiple base classes has a `%FIELDS` hash. See the fields manpage for a description of this feature.

When strict 'vars' is in scope base also let you assign to `@ISA` without having to declare `@ISA` with the 'vars' pragma first.

This module was introduced with Perl 5.004_04.

# SEE ALSO

the fields manpage