Source: libsub-identify-perl Standards-Version: 4.7.3 Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann , Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), libtest-pod-perl , perl-xs-dev, perl:native, Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libsub-identify-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libsub-identify-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Sub-Identify Package: libsub-identify-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, Description: module to retrieve names of code references Sub::Identify allows you to retrieve the real name of code references. For this, it uses perl's introspection mechanism, provided by the B module. . It provides four functions: sub_name returns the name of the subroutine (or __ANON__ if it's an anonymous code reference), stash_name returns its package, and sub_fullname returns the concatenation of the two. . The fourth function, get_code_info, returns a list of two elements, the package and the subroutine name (in case of you want both and are worried by the speed.) . In case of subroutine aliasing, those functions always return the original name.