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Re^3: How Are Attributes Useful? (just tags)

by Zaxo (Archbishop)
on Jan 19, 2005 at 00:32 UTC ( [id://423224]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: How Are Attributes Useful? (just tags)
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!

After Compline,
Zaxo

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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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