Cumulative Methods

One of the most important advantages of using the BUILD( ) and DEMOLISH( ) mechanisms supplied by Class::Std is that those methods don't require nested calls to their ancestral methods via the SUPER pseudoclass. The constructor and destructor provided by Class::Std take care of the necessary redispatching automatically. Each BUILD( ) method can focus solely on its own responsibilities; it doesn't have to also help orchestrate the cumulative constructor effects across the class hierarchy by remembering to call $self->SUPER::BUILD( ).

This approach produces far more reliable class implementations, because forgetting to include the SUPER call in a "chained" constructor or destructor will immediately terminate the chain of calls, disenfranchising all the remaining construction/destruction methods higher up in the class's hierarchy.