Damian Conway, Object Oriented Perl, p. 169:
Inheritance in Perl ... means nothing more than: if you can't find the method requested in an object's blessed class, look for it in the classes that the blessed class inherits from.
Put even more simply: If you can't find it here, this is how you find it.
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