Source: libdevel-declare-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Ansgar Burchardt , Damyan Ivanov , gregor herrmann , Angel Abad Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20120312~), libb-hooks-endofscope-perl, libb-hooks-op-check-perl (>= 0.19), libextutils-depends-perl (>= 0.302), libsub-name-perl, libtest-requires-perl, libtest-warn-perl, perl Standards-Version: 4.1.0 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libdevel-declare-perl.git Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/libdevel-declare-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Devel-Declare Package: libdevel-declare-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, libb-hooks-endofscope-perl, libb-hooks-op-check-perl (>= 0.19), libsub-name-perl Description: module to add new syntax to Perl Devel::Declare can install subroutines called declarators which locally take over control of Perl's parser, allowing the creation of new syntax, including keywords and other constructs that might not be, in themselves, valid Perl 5 code. . This module can be used for adding new keywords, completely in Perl code. It allows a subroutine to be executed during the Perl code compilation, meaning that syntax can be transformed into equivalent code for Perl on-the-fly.