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Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> 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//.
That should probably mean that overriding uc, ucfirst, lc,
lcfirst, quotemeta, should also modify \U, \u, etc. as well.
Currently overring glob() and readline() change the two meanings
of <>.
> 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__
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