note LanX Im still confused, there is no way to reduce the effect of overloading to just the file which imports a modul with an overloaded Regexp package?<P> (except maybe implementing a switch to default behavior within the overloading methods) <P> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-708738"> <p>Cheers Rolf </div></div><P> UPDATE: might be possible with <c>eval 'no overload "cmp";</c> see [doc://overload#Run-time-Overloading] 781447 781774