Re: How Are Attributes Useful?

[CountZero]

IIRC, Maypole makes use of subroutine attributes to check whether some subroutines are "exported" or not. Rather than having to maintain a list of "exported" subroutines, you simply add the "exported" attribute to the subroutine and Maypole will do the right thing (or so the docs say -- unfortunately I have not been able to get Maypole running on my system).

[Limbic~Region]

CountZero,
This was an example tye provided in the CB where the same thing could be accomplished without attributes. Like I said, it is nice that it makes certain very specific tasks easier but it seems that there should be something more general and more powerful about them. I haven't had a chance to go through all of the replies yet so hopefully someone has demystified it for me/us.