NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OVERRIDING CORE FUNCTIONS
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
NAME
CORE - Namespace for Perl's core routines
SYNOPSIS
BEGIN {
*CORE::GLOBAL::hex = sub { 1; };
}
print hex("0x50"),"\n"; # prints 1
print CORE::hex("0x50"),"\n"; # prints 80
CORE::say "yes"; # prints yes
BEGIN { *shove = \&CORE::push; }
shove @array, 1,2,3; # pushes on to @array
DESCRIPTION
The CORE namespace gives access to the original built-in functions of Perl. The CORE package is built into Perl, and