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# overloading

perl pragma to lexically control overloading

## SYNOPSIS

```perl
{
    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.