From: Jerrad Pierce Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:28:13 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Re: overriding builtins quirk X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=163e3a99f83605ff107fb86a86c7dd9dc9dece8f;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Re: overriding builtins quirk Message-Id: <200302141428.JAA25752@cathedral-seven.mit.edu> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@18704 --- diff --git a/pod/perlsub.pod b/pod/perlsub.pod index ce3b120..918f429 100644 --- a/pod/perlsub.pod +++ b/pod/perlsub.pod @@ -1157,8 +1157,8 @@ only occasionally and for good reason. Typically this might be done by a package attempting to emulate missing built-in functionality on a non-Unix system. -Overriding may be done only by importing the name from a -module--ordinary predeclaration isn't good enough. However, the +Overriding may be done only by importing the name from a module at +compile time--ordinary predeclaration isn't good enough. However, the C pragma lets you, in effect, predeclare subs via the import syntax, and these names may then override built-in ones: