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