overloading

overloading

• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION

NAME

overloading - perl pragma to lexically control overloading

SYNOPSIS

   {
no overloading;
my $str = "$object"; # doesn't call stringification overload
   }

   # it's lexical, so this stringifies:
   warn "$object";

   # it can be enabled per op
   no overloading qw("");
   warn "$object";

   # and also reenabled
   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.