If people feel annotations for this are alright then I must defer to their judgement. Mostly because I can't think of anything better that doesn't look like C.

There is a my Dog $spot syntax that in some sense declares (at approximately pinky-promise level) that $spot will be isa Dog.

In `perldoc -f my` we see my TYPE VARLIST which is described by:

            The exact semantics and interface of TYPE [is] still
            evolving. TYPE may be a bareword, a constant declared with
+ "use
            constant", or "__PACKAGE__". It is currently bound to the 
+use of
            the fields pragma

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I'm not sure what "bound to the use of the fields pragma" is intended to mean, but you probably don't need to care if your preprocessor is in any case going to strip it out.

(Update: added quote from OP)

In reply to Re: I don't like annotation syntax by hv
in thread I don't like annotation syntax by Liebranca

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