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On 25/10/06, David Feldman <David.Feldman@tudor.com> wrote:
> At Artur Bergman's suggestion, I am contacting you. Here is my original
> message to Artur:
>
> Artur,
>
> I am using your Attribute::Handlers module, but I needed to make
> a modification to it to enable better diagnostics. Basically, I have
> the [meta-]handler store the filename and line number of the attribute
> invocation, and then the handler is passed these as parameters. So, my
> handlers now have a call spec of:
>
> sub Args : ATTR(CODE) {
> my($package, $symbol, $referent, $attr, $data,
> $phase, $filename, $linenum) = @_;
> }
>
> That way, if there is an error in attribute processing (for
> example, if the 'Args' attribute is applied twice to the same function),
> then my error messages can print the filename and line number.
>
> If you'd like, I'll share the code modifications with you. They
> are trivial and took about 5 minutes to work into your code.
I would welcome such a patch, it looks useful.
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