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overloading

NAME

overloading - perl pragma to lexically control overloading

SYNOPSIS

  1.     {
  2. 	no overloading;
  3. 	my $str = "$object"; # doesn't call stringification overload
  4.     }
  6.     # it's lexical, so this stringifies:
  7.     warn "$object";
  9.     # it can be enabled per op
  10.     no overloading qw("");
  11.     warn "$object";
  13.     # and also reenabled
  14.     use overloading;

DESCRIPTION

This pragma allows you to lexically disable or enable overloading.

  • no overloading

    Disables overloading entirely in the current lexical scope.

  • no overloading @ops

    Disables only specific overloads in the current lexical scope.

  • use overloading

    Reenables overloading in the current lexical scope.

  • use overloading @ops

    Reenables overloading only for specific ops in the current lexical scope.

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