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package # hide the package from PAUSE
    Perl6Attribute;

use strict;
use warnings;

our $VERSION = '0.02';

use base 'Class::MOP::Attribute';

Perl6Attribute->meta->add_around_method_modifier('new' => sub {
    my $cont = shift;
    my ($class, $attribute_name, %options) = @_;

# extract the sigil and accessor name
    my ($sigil, $accessor_name) = ($attribute_name =~ /^([\$\@\%])\.(.*)$/);

# pass the accessor name
    $options{accessor} = $accessor_name;

# create a default value based on the sigil
    $options{default} = sub { [] } if ($sigil eq '@');
    $options{default} = sub { {} } if ($sigil eq '%');

$cont->($class, $attribute_name, %options);
});

__END__

=pod

=head1 NAME

Perl6Attribute - An example attribute metaclass for Perl 6 style attributes

=head1 SYNOPSIS

package Foo;

Foo->meta->add_attribute(Perl6Attribute->new('$.foo'));
  Foo->meta->add_attribute(Perl6Attribute->new('@.bar'));
  Foo->meta->add_attribute(Perl6Attribute->new('%.baz'));

sub new  {
      my $class = shift;
      $class->meta->new_object(@_);
  }

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This is an attribute metaclass which implements Perl 6 style
attributes, including the auto-generating accessors.

This code is very simple, we only need to subclass
C<Class::MOP::Attribute> and override C<&new>. Then we just
pre-process the attribute name, and create the accessor name
and default value based on it.

More advanced features like the C<handles> trait (see
L<Perl6::Bible/A12>) can be accomplished as well doing the
same pre-processing approach. This is left as an exercise to
the reader though (if you do it, please send me a patch
though, and will update this).

=head1 AUTHORS

Stevan Little E<lt>stevan@iinteractive.comE<gt>

Yuval Kogman E<lt>nothingmuch@woobling.comE<gt>

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

L<http://www.iinteractive.com>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.

=cut