overloading(3pm)

💅 NAME 💅

overloading — the perl pragma that lets you lexically control overloading 🎀 (this is the overloading(3pm) page from the Perl Programmers Reference Guide, bestie, so you know it's official)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

{
    no overloading;
    my $str = "$object"; # doesn't call stringification overload
}

# it's lexical, so this stringifies:
warn "$object";

# it can be enabled per op
no overloading qw("");
warn "$object";

# and also reenabled
use overloading;

okay so like — read the comments, they're literally the whole plot 😭 the scope thing matters, the per-op thing matters, and yes you can turn it back on.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This pragma is the little switch that lets you lexically disable or enable overloading. That's the vibe. That's the whole job. 🫶

🌸 no overloading

Disables overloading entirely in the current lexical scope. like, the whole thing. gone. nobody's stringifying anything in here ✨

🌸 no overloading @ops

Disables only specific overloads in the current lexical scope 👑 so you're picking and choosing which ops get to sit this one out — main character energy for the ops you keep, honestly.

🌸 use overloading

Reenables overloading in the current lexical scope 💖 the comeback arc we all deserved.

🌸 use overloading @ops

Reenables overloading only for specific ops in the current lexical scope 🌈 so, again, per-op control — you don't have to turn everything back on at once, iykyk.

ngl the whole point is that it's lexical — the synopsis literally spells it out with # it's lexical, so this stringifies: after the block closes. don't come for me, come for the scope 🫶

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🎀 a lil sign-off 🎀

that's the page, bestie — go forth and control your overloading, lexically, per op, iconic behaviour only 💅✨

with love from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-11-03 — overloading(3pm), that's a wrap 🌸