overloading - perl pragma to lexically control overloading

NAME

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.

Links:

http://perldoc.perl.org/5.24.0/overloading.html

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2025-01-10 15:47:30

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