List properties

You can get a list of an object's attributes (instance variables) using .^attributes, which is part of the Meta Object Protocol..

Each is represented as an Attribute object that contains a bunch of info:

class Foo {
    has $!a = now;
    has Str $.b;
    has Int $.c is rw;
}

my $object = Foo.new: b => "Hello", c => 42;

for $object.^attributes {
    say join ", ", .name, .readonly, .container.^name, .get_value($object);
}

Output:

$!a, True, Any, Instant:1470517602.295992
$!b, True, Str, Hello
$!c, False, Int, 42

Public attributes (in this case, $.b and $.c) are really just attributes for which the compiler also auto-generates a method of the same name. See Reflection/List_methods#Raku.

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