methods imported once should be available to all child classes

[hsriat]

I have a module from which I am importing a couple of methods. Here is the code:

package MyEncoder;
use strict;
use Exporter qw(import)
use vars qw(@EXPORT);
@EXPORT = qw(encode decode);
 
sub encode { ... }
sub decode { ... }
 
1;

Now what I want is, if I use this in some module ,say MyBase, encode & decode methods should be availabe to all the child classes of MyBase without having 'use MyEncoder' written in each child class.

package MyBase;
use strict;
use MyEncoder;
 
sub new {
    shift;
    return bless {
        'value' => encode(shift || '')
    };
}
 
1;

Is it possible at all?

Thanks

[RonB]

Have you read the portions of the perldoc's that relate to inheritance?

http://perldoc.perl.org/perltoot.html#Inheritance

http://perldoc.perl.org/perltooc.htm...tance-Concerns

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlbot.html...LE-INHERITANCE

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlmodlib.h...e%2c-and-Abuse