Hi

Is it possible in anyway to add a Perl attribute to a value instead of to a variable?

If I understand the docs correctly the following code associates an attribute with a variable given that the attribute MyAttr is available. 

my $var :MyAttr;

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However I want to associate an attribute with a value and not with a variable. Something like this. Is this allowed in anyway? 
my_func( 1, 'Hi there', { key => 'value } :MyAttr );

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The above example could be solved by writing 

my $var :MyAttr = { key => 'value' };
my_func( 1, 'Hi there', $var );

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but that is not a satisfactory solutions in my case.

Also if an attribute cannot be associated with a value could anyone explain the reason behind this? I am wondering out of curiousity, it is not meant as a critisism to the attribute implementation in Perl.

Update: I no longer have use of actually doing this (see discussion below). I am however still curious if it is possible and if it is not, a possible explanation to why?

In reply to Adding attributes to values? by oyse

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