Is overloading useful?

• From experimenting with them, they can be flakey
• Sometimes the context is easy to mistake
• I wouldn't recommend basing your whole module on the functionality
• I find them most useful when defining what an object does in a context
• Without overloading: print $user; #User=HASH(0x8f0418)
• With overloading: print $user; #UID: 1178
• Useful when it make the intent of your code more clear