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

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.