Dear Brethren:

In several places of my module, I need to locally override several methods from another module. One way to achieve this is like this:

sub somesub {
  no warnings 'redefine';
  local *ABC::xyz = sub {1};
  # several more
  # ....
}
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However, there are several of the subroutines to override in several places of my code. I was wondering if there is a programmatic way of doing this, with a for loop, for example. However, my tests show that it's not possible, since local picks up loop's scope:

sub abc { 1 }

for my $method (qw(abc)) {
    local *{$method} = sub { 2 };
}
# Prints 1
print abc(), "\n";

if (1) {
    local *abc = sub { 3 };
}
# Prints 1
print abc(), "\n";

eval "local \*{'abc'} = sub { 4 };";
# Prints 1
print abc(), "\n";

local *{$_} = sub { 5 } for ("abc");
# Prints 1
print abc(), "\n";

local *abc = sub { 6 } if 1;
# Prints 6
print abc(), "\n";
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Ideas? Thanks!

  - Dmitri.

Update 1 in response to dragonchild and Fletch:

I am writing an OO layer of APIs on top of another layer of APIs. The latter is a DB representation and includes access checking here and there buried deep in the hierarchy. I'd like to avoid using those access checks (I have my own), and so I want to replace all instances of things like

package Anypackage;
sub can_read {
  # Some checks here
}
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with

sub can_read { 1 }
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