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Attributes are cool whenever out-of-band data is required. Some examples :

I have a toy application here, where I use attributes to specify access levels for subroutines.
If your application consists of a chain of list-munging subroutines, you can easily add tracking information as which routine touched which item without having to change/adapt every routine and without conflict with the output.
The always present compiler hints or runtime type enforcement can also be implemented via attributes (like the :Integer attribute), but of course, this is also out-of-bound information about your "data" (this time, your program is regarded as data by perl)

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web
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In reply to Uses for Attributes (was:Re: Re: Perl 5.8.0 and Attribute::Handlers) by Corion
in thread Perl 5.8.0 and Attribute::Handlers by bronto

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