Hi Monks,

I'm searching for a solution for overloading the closing bracket '}' operator or the 'sub'-statement.

The idea behind this is, that I want to execute code in the scope of the brackets (some kind of a hook). This code needs to be the last operation of the context which the brackets are including. Furthermore every 'sub' (in a package) should be hooked with this post-execution-operation.
Sadly I cannot rely on the return statement, otherwise I would like to overload this statement.
I searched the perlmonks.org for 'overload builtin' but it gives me only hints for overloading arithmetical statements. The perl manpage for overload does not mention overloading 'sub' or '{}'.(In the case that: this way it is not possible, then what about the symbol table?).

I tried e.g. following: 
BEGIN {
    use overload;
    overload::Method "*{}" => sub {
        print "Overloaded\n";
    };
}   

sub test () {
    print "Not Overloaded\n";
};  

test();

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Regards,

In reply to Overloading '{}' or 'sub' by pkirsch

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