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CONTENTS

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.