Yes. You can directly insert your new method into the symbol table. But it is not recommended. It makes your code hard to follow, hard to debug and unpredictable. Do you know for example what methods inside Mime::Lite might be expecting the 'send' method to have the documented behaviour? Are there other modules you are using that expect Mime::Lite::send to have the documented behaviour?

Besides all that, it's ugly.

But if I haven't put you off by my little rant above and you still want do to it, here is one of the ways:

*MIME::Lite::send = sub {  ... your code here ....}

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Update: Of course, another way of doing it is at the bottom of jhourcle's post.

In reply to Re^3: Overriding of a method by Nomad
in thread Overriding of a method by gv11ng

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