Source: libsafe-isa-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Nuno Carvalho Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Standards-Version: 4.1.4 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libsafe-isa-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libsafe-isa-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Safe-Isa Package: libsafe-isa-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Description: module for safely calling isa and friends on things that may not be objects Since Perl allows providing a subroutine reference, or a method name, to the -> operator (when used as a method call) and a subroutine doesn't require the invocant to actually be an object, Safe::Isa can be used to create safe versions of isa, can, does and DOES by using a subroutine reference that only tries to call the method if it's actually used on an object.