Source: libclass-adapter-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Vincent Danjean , Ansgar Burchardt Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10), perl Standards-Version: 4.1.4 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libclass-adapter-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libclass-adapter-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Class-Adapter Package: libclass-adapter-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Description: Perl implementation of the "Adapter" Design Pattern The Class::Adapter class is intended as an abstract base class for creating any sort of class or object that follows the Adapter pattern. . The term Adapter refers to a "Design Pattern" of the same name, from the famous "Gang of Four" book "Design Patterns". Although their original implementation was designed for Java and similar single-inheritance strictly-typed language, the situation for which it applies is still valid. . An Adapter in this Perl sense of the term is when a class is created to achieve by composition (objects containing other object) something that can't be achieved by inheritance (sub-classing). . This is similar to the Decorator pattern, but is intended to be applied on a class-by-class basis, as opposed to being able to be applied one object at a time, as is the case with the Decorator pattern.