Detecting Overridden Methods in Perl

Answer 1

One way to enforce this:

package Base;
...
sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    ...
    check_overrides( $class );
    ...
}

sub check_overrides {
    my $class = shift;
    for my $method ( @unoverridable ) {
        die "horribly" if __PACKAGE__->can( $method ) != $class->can( $method );
    }
}

Memoization of check_overrides may be helpful.

If there are some cases where you want exemptions, have an alternate method name and have the base class call that:

package Base;
...
my @unoverridable = 'DESTROY';
sub destroy {}
sub DESTROY {
    my $self = shift;
    # do essential stuff
    ...
    $self->destroy();
}