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NAME
    all::your::base::are::belong::to - perform multiple inheritance in Perl!

SYNOPSIS
     package My::Cat;
     use all::your::base::are::belong::to 'My::Mammal', 'My::WhiskeredThing';

DESCRIPTION
    OK, that abstract ("perform multiple inheritance in Perl!") makes this
    module sound really clever, but Perl supports multiple inheritance out
    of the box. So really this is just some silly syntactic sugar for
    setting up a module's inheritance chain. The example in the SYNOPSIS
    section is exactly equivalent to:

     package My::Cat;
     use parent 'My::Mammal', 'My::WhiskeredThing';

    which is roughly equivalent to:

     package My::Cat;
     BEGIN {
       require My::Mammal;
            require My::WhiskeredThing;
            push @My::Cat::ISA, 'My::Mammal', 'My::WhiskeredThing';
     }

SEE ALSO
    parent, perlboot.

AUTHOR
    Toby Inkster <[email protected]>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
    This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Toby Inkster.

    This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
    the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
    THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
    WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
    MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.