in reply to Removing overloaded string operator

According to the overload documentation, "no overload ..." works. So you could do something dangerous like: 

eval q[package Frooble; no overload '""';];

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Re^2: Removing overloaded string operator
by moot (Chaplain) on Feb 01, 2005 at 22:23 UTC
    I thought of that, but that's akin to overriding the as_string method, and would have a global effect (i.e. all string-forms of Frooble would then revert back to Frooble=HASH() form).

    What I was after was something like 

    # prints "Blortz", i.e. the instance name
print "$frooble";

# prints "Frooble=HASH(..)"
print UNIVERSAL::as_string($frooble);

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    but unless I'm missing something (not unusual ;) ) nothing like that exists.
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