Bryan R Harris wrote:
: , I'll rename it to something else -- but I still want
: it to be called "_uc" in my code and maybe just "u"
: available to the user. Is this possible?
Yes. You can have another sub call _uc().
sub u {
return _uc(@_);
}
Subroutines are in the Symbol Table. You could associate
(I'm not certain that is the correct term) another name with
this sub using a glob. You can read more about this in Symbol
Tables section of "perlmod" file of the documentation, but it
may rob you of some sanity. :)
local *convert = \&_uc;
Calling convert() will now do the same as calling _uc().
HTH,
Charles K. Clarkson