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Re^2: How Are Attributes Useful? (just tags)

by tye (Sage)
on Jan 18, 2005 at 18:02 UTC ( [id://423214]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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No, they are just text tags. Perl checks for the "lvalue" tag and, if found, does special processing. But the attribute is just a way to tell Perl to do that special processing.

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Re^3: How Are Attributes Useful? (just tags)
by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Jan 18, 2005 at 19:32 UTC

    That's an implementation detail. The point is that thay represent metadata for the perl compiler, not the user's runtime. It's magic, I say!

    After Compline,
    Zaxo

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      s/not/or/

      Attributes are just syntactic sugar for implementation details.

      If you think attributes are the magic, then you'll never understand how to use attributes in general.

      - tye        

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