On Sep 22, 9:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Phoenix) wrote: > Have you seen what the perlsub manpage has to say about "Overriding > Built-in Functions"? > > http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsub.html#Overriding-Built-in-Functions-bu... > > It should be possible, even if it's not a good idea. Good luck with it!
No I haven't, but I've read the Camel book instead :-) On Sep 23, 12:01 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) wrote: > So a function like 'open' can be overridden: > > $ perl -le' print prototype "CORE::open"' > *;$@ > > But it looks like 'defined' cannot: > > $ perl -le' print prototype "CORE::defined"' Thanks, I didn't know that functions whose arguments cannot be expressed by a prototype couldn't be overridden. On Sep 23, 12:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gunnar Hjalmarsson) wrote: > "use subs" doesn't seem to work on defined(). OTOH, you can call the > function with the ampersand or with a fully qualified name. > > &defined(); > > main::defined(); Thanks for the tip! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
