I have a function that I might want to just be an alias to "print", or I might want it to be something else. This is what I tried: 
my $pick_real_print = 1;
use vars qw(&printish);
*printish = $pick_real_print ? *CORE::print :
  sub { print "I'm not really print!\n" };

CORE::print "Here is the real deal\n";
printish "printing\n";

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which prints: 
Here is the real deal
Undefined subroutine &CORE::print called at - line 7.
I know print is a very special function... is it possible to alias to it?

ps. I already have the workaround sub { print } in place. I was hoping to benchmark the difference between that and aliasing via code reference, since this will be in a tight loop, and I'm curious.

In reply to Possible to get coderef of CORE::print to alias it? by Yary

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