Yes, Attribute::Handlers is really badly designed. It uses inheritance in stupid ways and requires things to be put into UNIVERSAL and other nonsense.

I've implemented attributes by not using it and avoided these problems. I actually have a module that is an alternative to Attribute::Handlers that avoids these problems. It isn't on CPAN yet mostly because dealing with the possibility of somebody else having used Attribute::Handlers is a complex mess (and because this was a means to an end so my motivation was more about the module that used this than about this module).

- tye        

In reply to Re^2: RFC: Simulating Python's @decorators in Perl with Attributes (inheritance--) by tye
in thread RFC: Simulating Python's @decorators in Perl with Attributes by LanX

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