Re^2: How Are Attributes Useful? (just tags)

No, they are just text tags. Perl checks for the "lvalue" tag and, if found, does special processing. But the attribute is just a way to tell Perl to do that special processing.

- tye

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Re^3: How Are Attributes Useful? (just tags) by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Jan 19, 2005 at 00:32 UTC
That's an implementation detail. The point is that thay represent metadata for the perl compiler, not the user's runtime. It's magic, I say! After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]
Re^4: How Are Attributes Useful? (just tags) by tye (Sage) on Jan 19, 2005 at 01:57 UTC
s/not/or/ Attributes are just syntactic sugar for implementation details. If you think attributes are the magic, then you'll never understand how to use attributes in general. - tye	[reply]