I thought the +/- value in front of KEY_xxx in toke.c determined the override-ability of a keyword. (If I am wrong, let me know.) glob() is KEY_glob, but I can override it. Typo? -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ CPAN - #1 Perl Resource (my id: PINYAN) http://search.cpan.org/ PerlMonks - An Online Perl Community http://www.perlmonks.com/ The Perl Archive - Articles, Forums, etc. http://www.perlarchive.com/