On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Steve Willer wrote:

> > They are called attributes, and are a core part of Perl 5.6+. I'm guessing
> > Jorg used Attribute::Handlers to make this module, which will be in core
> > perl 5.8.
>
> Oh wow...somehow that passed me by. That's a very rich feature. I'll have to
> explore using that myself.
>
> Now all they have to do is implement named parameters, Python-style, and my
> biggest sources of frustration will vanish!

There's Attribute::Signature and Attribute::Params::Validate, but neither
do exactly what you're after. I too wish for better named parameters. Even
ruby doesn't have them, though they're slated for ruby 1.8.

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