I would add that this is a MAJOR action, this messing with someone else's symbol table. This is something that should be done as an ultimate last resort, with great trepidation. If you're considering doing this, you should probably just write your own version of said file.

The reasoning is this:

  1. I can't edit the file I want to edit.
  2. This means I probably don't completely comprehend said file.
  3. I'm making a change in something the file assumes will not be changed.
  4. This means that I don't know what all the ramifications of that are.

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In reply to Just cause you can doesn't mean you should! by dragonchild
in thread Trapping a Function Call in Non-OO Perl by kakaze

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