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.