in reply to Re^5: Overloading without infinite descent
in thread Overloading without infinite descent (fixed by time: see Perl 5.10.1)

This is an interesting variant of ELISHEVA's reply below, and it specifically addresses my use case in Re^2: Overloading without infinite descent. I do appreciate the other ways of thinking about this problem, but my question is less about “How else can I do this?” and more specifically about “Is there a way to ‘undo’ overloading”?

(The very act of re-phrasing the problem that way made me wonder if no overload might do it, but it doesn't.)

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Re^7: Overloading without infinite descent
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 03, 2009 at 07:50 UTC
    Maybe by temporarily re-bless-ing?
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      Wow, what a solution, and it works! I guess we finally have a use for Acme::Damn. Thanks!
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Re^7: Overloading without infinite descent
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 03, 2009 at 07:48 UTC
    Yes, don't use perl :) use XS.
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