Source: libenum-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Standards-Version: 3.9.6 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libenum-perl.git Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libenum-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/enum Package: libenum-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Description: perl module for sets of ordered constants like enums in C The enum module defines a set of symbolic constants with ordered numeric values ala C enum types. . It is now capable of creating ordered bitmask constants as well. See the BITMASKS section in the documentation for details. . What are they good for? Typical uses would be for giving mnemonic names to indexes of arrays. Such arrays might be a list of months, days, or a return value index from a function such as localtime().