On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 11:48:14PM -0800, Allison Randal wrote: : I suspect that originally it was expected that properties would only be : attached at runtime. But, since we have the option of flagging subs to : execute at various stages of compilation, it seems safe to assume that : properties can be attached at various stages of compilation too.
Indeed, that's part of why Perl 6 eventually threw out properties entirely, on the supposition that properties are simply attributes that are mixed in at run-time rather than compiled in. Larry
