well, here's basically the idea: 
Package Foo;
use strict;
use Exporter;
use vars qw(@EXPORT_OK);
@EXPORT_OK = (&sysread);

sub sysread
  { print "this is not the real thing\n"; }

Package Bar;
use Foo qw(sysread);

print "about to test sysread\n";
sysread;

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Basically this generates *both* the "this is not the real thing" message from the imported sub as well as the "not enough arguments for sysread" error message from the core call.

What really dazzles me is not even the fact that it doesn't quite work the way I want it to, but that in fact both functions are being called on.

In reply to Re^2: using Exporter to overwrite a core function by Forsaken
in thread using Exporter to overwrite a core function by Forsaken

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