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in thread How Are Attributes Useful?

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!

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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        

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