Source: libautobox-core-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Ivan Kohler , gregor herrmann Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) Build-Depends-Indep: perl, libautobox-perl, libwant-perl (>= 0.26) Standards-Version: 3.9.8 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libautobox-core-perl.git Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/libautobox-core-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/autobox-Core Package: libautobox-core-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libautobox-perl, libwant-perl (>= 0.26) Description: module providing automatic methods for core functions This module provides automatic methods which wrap perl's built-in functions for minipulating numbers, strings, arrays, hashes, and code references. It can be handy to use built-in functions as methods to avoid messy dereferencing syntaxes and parentheses pile ups. . autobox::Core is what you'd call a stub module. It is merely glue, presenting existing functions with a new interface. Most of the methods read like sub hex ($) { hex($_[0]) }. Besides built-ins that operate on hashes, arrays, scalars, and code references, some Perl 6-ish things were thrown in, and some keywords like foreach have been turned into methods.