Re: Re: !Overriding Builtin print

[diotalevi]

No. You are mistaking ->import() for BEGIN. The point is getting the override information to the parser before it parses the portion you expected to be overridden. ->import() can do that because it happens at BEGIN-time during use(). You can do that yourself with an inline BEGIN block.

[demerphq]

Interesting. However, given the documentation on my system this mistake is not difficult to understand... From perlsub

Overriding may be done only by importing the name from a module--ordin
+ary
predeclaration isn't good enough. However, the use subs pragma lets yo
+u, 
in effect, predeclare subs via the import syntax, and these names may 
+then 
override built-in ones:


    use subs 'chdir', 'chroot', 'chmod', 'chown';
    chdir $somewhere;
    sub chdir { ... }

But thanks for the clarification.