Sherwin, Annotations/Attributes are kind of the bastard love child of compiler hints and macros, they make less sense in a highly dynamic language like Perl.
Can you explain what it is you want to do with annotations/attributes? And perhaps we can point you in a more perl-ish direction. - Stevan On Oct 19, 2011, at 3:19 AM, Sherwin Daganato wrote: > Has anyone here got any idea how to implement Java annotation[1] or > .NET attributes[2] with Moose? I'm particularly interested in how it > can be applied to a Moose class and attribute. > > Right now I'm looking into MooseX-Role-Parameterized to create > parameterized metaclass and attribute traits. It seems to be a fit for > what I want to do, except that the role block which it requires will > be empty. > > Anyone with a more elegant solution? > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_annotation > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_metadata#Attributes
