note tobyink <p>PS: by playing around with [mod://Devel::Declare] is ought to also be possible to replace code like this:</p> <code> my $foo = an(5, '$foo'); </code> <p>With something more like:</p> <code> annotated $foo = 5; </code> <p>Devel::Declare allows you to hook into the Perl parser to catch keywords and add custom parsing for them. In this case, you'd catch the keyword <c>annotated</c> and rewrite it to something like:</p> <code> annotated(); my $foo = Scalar::Annotated->new(0, '$foo'); $$foo = 5; </code> <p>Thus people could use <c>annotated</c> in much the same way as they currently use <c>my</c>, <c>local</c> or <c>our</c>.</p> 954455 954495