overloading

CONTENTS

• 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.