use feature 'say'; undef &say; *say = \¬_say; say 'test'; sub not_say { print 'not saying'; } #### use strict; use warnings; use 5.012; #Rule: sub names are entered into the symbol table. sub abc { print "abc\n"; } sub xyz { print "xyz\n"; } local *abc; #gets rid of 'redefined main::abc' warning' *abc = \&xyz; abc; --output:-- xyz #### use strict; use warnings; use 5.012; sub xyz { print "xyz\n"; } local *say; *say = \&xyz; say 'hello'; --output:-- hello #### use strict; use warnings; use 5.012; use subs qw( say ); #Supposedly overrides a built in my $verbose = 1; sub say { if ($verbose) { print shift, " world\n"; } } say 'hello'; --output:-- hello