Re: Inheritance confusion

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On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 11:05:35PM -0500, Warren Pollans wrote:
> I've created a set_sql() called tableinfo.  sql_tableinfo is inherited 
> by subclasses - i.e., <subclass>->sql_tableinfo works OK.  However, 
> when I try to use <subclass>->search_tableinfo, there is a complaint: 
> Can't locate object method "search_tableinfo" via package in the 
> <subclass>

set_sql only creates search_* methods for queries for which it would
make sense to do so. In your case, a list of columns will not translate
into objects of the class, so you don't get a search_tableinfo method.

Tony