text: in reply to RE: RE: RE: Call Subroutines by Approximate Name (poetic license)in thread Call Subroutines by Approximate Name
  You can get to any core function through CORE. For
  instance if you override print you can still call the
  real one as CORE::print. OTOH that does seem to be hacked
  in at a low level. I cannot figure out how to find it.
  Normally, of course, your %package:: would work. But not
  in this case. :-(
  BTW if you are curious, perlsub says that if you override a
  function in CORE::GLOBAL you will override the built-in in
  all namespaces. I didn't know that. I don't think that
  I particularly wanted to either...
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