What attributes are for? Uhmmmm... why you ask me? The camel book (3rd edition, page 745) shows my num PI : constant = atan2(1,1) * 4 as an example and tells briefly about other possible uses.

Why would I use them. I came around them in 180455 and replies. Yesterday night I read perldelta, today I was digging into the code and docs of Attribute::Protected. I found it interesting, but since it relies on Attribute::Handlers it would be interesting to know if it is safe to write production code with it.

attributes reports the usage attribute declaration for variables is still experimental. What I would like to have is, say, a measure of how much experimental attributes are: is it safe to play with them in subroutines now? Is it not? Code that uses Attribute::Handlers is reliable or is expected to break in the short/medium term?

Ciao!
--bronto

# Another Perl edition of a song:
# The End, by The Beatles
END {
  $you->take($love) eq $you->made($love) ;
}

In reply to Re: Re: Perl 5.8.0 and Attribute::Handlers by bronto
in thread Perl 5.8.0 and Attribute::Handlers by bronto

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