This is the Perl distribution Data-Inherited. ## Installation Data-Inherited installation is straightforward. If your CPAN shell is set up, you should just be able to do % cpan Data::Inherited Download it, unpack it, then build it as per the usual: % perl Makefile.PL % make && make test Then install it: % make install ## Documentation Data-Inherited documentation is available as in POD. So you can do: % perldoc Data::Inherited to read the documentation with your favorite pager.