---
name: "Devel::OverloadInfo"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "perl-devel-overloadinfo"
version: "0.008-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Devel::OverloadInfo"
---

# Devel::OverloadInfo(3pm)

introspect overloaded operators

## NAME

Devel::OverloadInfo - introspect overloaded operators

## VERSION

version 0.008

## DESCRIPTION

Devel::OverloadInfo returns information about overloaded operators for a given class (or object), including where in the inheritance hierarchy the overloads are declared and where the code implementing them is.

## FUNCTIONS

### is\_overloaded

```
   if (is_overloaded($class_or_object)) { ... }
```

Returns a boolean indicating whether the given class or object has any overloading declared.  Note that a bare `"use overload;"` with no actual operators counts as being overloaded.

Equivalent to **overload::Overloaded()**, but doesn't trigger various bugs associated with it in versions of perl before 5.16.

### overload\_op\_info

```
    my $info = overload_op_info($class_or_object, $op);
```

Returns a hash reference with information about the specified overloaded operator of the named class or blessed object.

Returns `"undef"` if the operator is not overloaded.

See "Overloadable Operations" in overload for the available operators.

The keys in the returned hash are as follows:

- class

  The name of the class in which the operator overloading was declared.

- code

  A reference to the function implementing the overloaded operator.

- code\_name

  The fully qualified name of the function implementing the overloaded operator.

- method\_name (optional)

  The name of the method implementing the overloaded operator, if the overloading was specified as a named method, e.g. `"use overload $op` `=> 'method';"`.

- code\_class (optional)

  The name of the class in which the method specified by `"method_name"` was found.

- value (optional)

  For the special `"fallback"` key, the value it was given in `"class"`.

### overload\_info

```
    my $info = overload_info($class_or_object);
```

Returns a hash reference with information about all the overloaded operators of specified class name or blessed object.  The keys are the overloaded operators, as specified in `%overload::ops` (see "Overloadable Operations" in overload), and the values are the hashes returned by "overload\_op\_info".

## CAVEATS

Whether the `"fallback"` key exists when it has its default value of `"undef"` varies between perl versions: Before 5.18 it's there, in later versions it's not.

## AUTHOR

Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker \<ilmari@ilmari.org\>

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.