On 23 Sep, 00:10, [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();
This is true but not really very useful. The real reason to define subroutines that happen to have the same name as built-in functions is so that they can be called as methods. ISTR that a recent version of Perl introduces weak built-in functions. These _can_ be overridden simply by declaring a subroutine of the same name. This is, of course, an ugly hack to add reserved words to the language without breaking existing code. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
