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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.

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