Nick Ing-Simmons <nick.ing-simmons@elixent.com> wrote: > Edward Peschko <esp5@mdssirds.comp.pge.com> writes: > >Anyways, I'd be happy to make this a module, except that there's no good way > >that I can see to override `` > > You _may_ have a point there. I think that overriding readpipe() should also override qx//. This doesn't happen, as shown by : #!perl -w BEGIN { *CORE::GLOBAL::readpipe = sub { print "this is foo!\n" } } print qx/ls/; print readpipe("ls"); __END__ That would be consistent with change 14260 : Log: Subject: [PATCH] Overriding readline() should also override <FH> From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@free.fr> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:03:04 +0100 Message-ID: <20020114230304.A691@rafael> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Overriding readline() should also override <FH$> From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@free.fr> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:18:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20020114231843.E691@rafael> Branch: perl ! pod/perlsub.pod t/op/override.t toke.c -- Unanswerable is not *NIXThread Previous | Thread Next