"Haven't drunk the OO Kool-Aid yet? Think object-oriented has something to do with Ayn Rand? Do you eat Java programmers for breakfast? If the answer to any of those is yes, than this is the module for you! foundation adds the power of inheritance without getting into a class-war! Simply use foundation and list which libraries symbols you wish to "inherit". It then sucks in all the symbols from those libraries into the current one." I'm tempted to think that this module was written simply to give the author a chance to ask whether you eat Java programmers for breakfast. Sounds like something that will make it into a lot of obfuscated Perl to me...