#! perl -slw use strict; use 5.010; our $FOO = 'fred'; sub FOO () { 'foo' } BEGIN { undef $::{FOO}{CODE} } say defined &FOO ? 'subroutine defined' : 'subroutine undef'; say eval 'FOO if $false; 1' ? 'FOO allowed' : 'FOO not allowed'; print $FOO; __END__ C:\test>660264.p10 subroutine defined FOO not allowed fred