Re^4: Trying to figure out subroutine attributes

Ah. So the attributes themselves are no longer available after compile time. I didn't get that from the docs... :)

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Re^5: Trying to figure out subroutine attributes by pemungkah (Priest) on Dec 11, 2006 at 19:54 UTC
Yeah, it's like assembler (or LISP) macros. It lets you get into the compile phase and do stuff. I should clarify: You don't have to just store data; you can do anything that Perl lets you do. Create subroutines (or closures). Fire up WWW::Mechanize and load data from a Web server. Build a connection to your database automagically by having a scalar with the connection info in it and an attribute that takes the data, builds the connection, and drops it back into the scalar.	[reply]

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Re^5: Trying to figure out subroutine attributes
by pemungkah (Priest) on Dec 11, 2006 at 19:54 UTC

I should clarify: You don't have to just store data; you can do anything that Perl lets you do. Create subroutines (or closures). Fire up WWW::Mechanize and load data from a Web server. Build a connection to your database automagically by having a scalar with the connection info in it and an attribute that takes the data, builds the connection, and drops it back into the scalar.

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