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NAME

Perl6Attribute - An example attribute metaclass for Perl 6 style attributes

SYNOPSIS

package Foo;

Foo->meta->add_attribute(Perl6Attribute->new('$.foo'));
Foo->meta->add_attribute(Perl6Attribute->new('@.bar'));    
Foo->meta->add_attribute(Perl6Attribute->new('%.baz'));    

sub new  {
    my $class = shift;
    $class->meta->new_object(@_);
}

DESCRIPTION

This is an attribute metaclass which implements Perl 6 style attributes, including the auto-generating accessors.

This code is very simple, we only need to subclass Class::MOP::Attribute and override &new. Then we just pre-process the attribute name, and create the accessor name and default value based on it.

More advanced features like the handles trait (see "A12" in Perl6::Bible) can be accomplished as well doing the same pre-processing approach. This is left as an exercise to the reader though (if you do it, please send me a patch though, and will update this).

AUTHORS

Stevan Little <stevan@iinteractive.com>

Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2006, 2007 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.

http://www.iinteractive.com

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.