in reply to Re: Autoboxing by subclassing CORE
in thread Autoboxing by subclassing CORE

I'm using 5.16. perl5160delta notes various improvements to the CORE and CORE::GLOBAL namespaces. Perhaps in earlier Perls CORE::substr doesn't work, but some other interesting CORE functions are likely to work.

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'