NAME Attribute::Overload - Attribute that makes overloading easier SYNOPSIS use Attribute::Overload; sub add : Overload(+) { ... } DESCRIPTION The `Overload' attribute, when used on a subroutine, declares that subroutine as handler in the current package for the operation(s) indicated by the attribute options. Thus it frees you from the implementation details of how to declare overloads and keeps the definitions where they belong, with the operation handlers. For details of which operations can be overloaded and what the overloading function gets passed see the `overload' manpage. Note that you can't overload constants this way, since this has to happen during BEGIN time, but attributes are only evaluated at CHECK time (at least as far as `Attribute::Handlers' is concerned). BUGS None known so far. If you find any bugs or oddities, please do inform the author. AUTHOR Marcel Grunauer, COPYRIGHT Copyright 2001 Marcel Grunauer. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO perl(1), overload(3pm), Attribute::Handlers(3pm).