Re: Accessing a variable's attributes (was Re: RFC 241 (v1) ...)

[David L. Nicol]

Michael G Schwern wrote:

> Also, just being able to tack flags onto a variable means each
> variable (that has a flag) would have to carry around a hash!

Or it could mean that every new flag is associated with a hash of
names of things for which it is set -- in which case 

        $something:attribute

becomes a shortcut for

        $special_attribute_flags_hash{'attribute'.stringify(\$something)}

and some magic gets thrown in to destroy the flag entries when $something
gets axed.

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