Source: libsub-recursive-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Peter Roberts 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/libsub-recursive-perl.git Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libsub-recursive-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Sub-Recursive Package: libsub-recursive-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Description: Perl module for memory-leak free recursive anonymous subroutines Recursive closures suffer from a severe memory leak. Sub::Recursive makes the problem go away cleanly and at the same time allows you to write recursive subroutines as expression and can make them truly anonymous. There's no significant speed difference between using &recursive and writing the simpler leaking solution.