On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:19:59 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> So I would like to see able to tag arbitrary information onto just about
> everything, including files, packages, classes, subroutines, blocks, control
> structures, statements, lines, expressions, variables and whatever else I've
> forgotten about. Properties can be attached to some of these. Can we
> generalise this at all?
> Of course, the applicability of this is not limited to code coverage, so it
> would be nice to have something as general and multi purpose as possible.
> But I don't want language support for saying that, that seems to be a problem
> for the applications that want the data, although I'd be glad to be shown that
> I am wrong and that the language can support that in a clean and concise way.
> Instead, I just want somewhere to hang arbitrary data.
Dan started a thread about bytecode in p6i:
http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-internals@;perl.org/msg13377.html
I jumped on the "arbitrary metadata" soapbox, and finally distilled my thoughts
down to this:
http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-internals@;perl.org/msg13443.html
It sounds like we're thinking along the same lines. This would be very handy
for introspective tools (code coverage, refactoring browsers, IDEs...).
-- c
