Erik Steven Harrison wrote:
> I've been playing around with Perl 5.6's lvalue subs. And (though at times
> irritating to deal with) they're wonderful. It seems to me that the use of an
> assignment operator is quite clear, and so there is no need for individual method
> calls for retrieving and setting the attribute.
> Will this exist in Perl 6?
Yes. The attribute C<:lvalue> will become the property C<is rw>.
> In fact, as long as we're mulling over it, will subroutine attributes be
> supported in Perl 6
Yes. Except they'll be called properties.
See:
http://dev.perl.org/perl6/apocalypse/2#properties
http://dev.perl.org/perl6/exegesis/2
> and what kind of changes should we expect?
Slightly different syntax.
More easily user-configurable.
More tightly integrated with the core language.
Greater variety of standard properties available.
Damian
