Scalar::properties attempts to make perl more object-oriented by taking an idea from ruby: everything you manipulate is an object, and the results of those manipulations are objects themselves.

'hello world'->length (-1234)->abs "oh my god, it's full of properties"->index('g')

the first example asks a string to calculate its length. the second example asks a number to calculate its absolute value. and the third example asks a string to find the index of the letter 'g'.

using this module you can have run-time properties on initialized scalar variables and literal values. the word 'properties' is used in the perl 6 sense: out-of-band data, little sticky notes that are attached to the value. while attributes (as in perl 5's attribute pragma, and see the attribute::* family of modules) are handled at compile-time, properties are handled at run-time.