Re^2: Arcane syntax question (Catalyst/OOPerl)

Excellent. So the attributes can gain knowledge of function invocation before they actually are invoked, and (in this case) potentially intercept/deny/replace them? I think?

I see where in "perldoc attributes" the syntactic sugar maps the colon syntax into the "use attributes" syntax, though I didn't see an example of actually writing a custom attribute without Attribute::Handlers. This omission is probably ok as I can read the source there.

I can definitely see AOP-style implications. Or maybe I'm missing the point here?

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Re^3: Arcane syntax question (Catalyst/OOPerl) by perrin (Chancellor) on Feb 06, 2006 at 23:33 UTC
Catalyst uses these for metadata about methods. It maps URLs to methods using this data.	[reply]