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

[John Porter]

Peter Scott wrote:
> 
> <Brainstorming> How about an attribute for hashes:
> 
>          my %foo : fixed;

Has anyone talked about the ability to access the 
attributes attached to a variable?

Are all the possible attributes going to be predefined, or can the
user define new ones?  I would think that if it could be done at all,
it would only be in extension (formerly XS) code.


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John Porter

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