Fellow monks,

I have a package Foo with function sub delete {...}. In this function I want to call built-in perl function delete for deleting an element of hash. How do I do this? I found that I should use CORE::delete.

I tought that I know how Perl symbol tables work, but now I'm confused. Where does perl build-in functions 'live'? In every package symbol table? I suppose not.
I guess they live in CORE package's symbol table. So how they are called if they are not exported to every symbol table? Are they treated as a reserved words in perl? And if they are, why I'm allowed to define my function delete in my package?

Or maybe I've got it all wrong.

In reply to Built-in functions and symbol table by gildir

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