Source: libautobox-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Angel Abad , Xavier Guimard Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), libipc-system-simple-perl , libscope-guard-perl , libtest-fatal-perl , perl-xs-dev, perl:native Standards-Version: 4.6.1 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libautobox-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libautobox-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/autobox Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: libautobox-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, libscope-guard-perl Description: Perl pragma for method calls on native types autobox is a Perl pragma that enables method calls on Perl's native data types including numeric values (integers and floats), strings, arrays, hashes and even code references in a simple and consistent way. . When a method is invoked on something which is not a blessed object reference, autobox looks for the method in a package whose name corresponds to the ref() type of the value. This design means extending the default functionality for new methods on a type-by-type basis is very simple.