Source: libtree-simple-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Niko Tyni , gregor herrmann , Damyan Ivanov Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10) Build-Depends-Indep: perl, libtest-exception-perl, libtest-memory-cycle-perl, perl (>= 5.19.6) | libtest-simple-perl (>= 1.001002) Standards-Version: 4.1.3 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libtree-simple-perl.git Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/libtree-simple-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Tree-Simple Package: libtree-simple-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Description: implementation of a simple tree object Tree::Simple is a fully object-oriented implementation of a simple n-ary tree. It is built upon the concept of parent-child relationships, so therefore every Tree::Simple object has both a parent and a set of children (who themselves may have children, and so on). Every Tree::Simple object also has siblings, as they are just the children of their immediate parent. . It can be used to model hierarchal information such as a file-system, the organizational structure of a company, an object inheritance hierarchy, versioned files from a version control system or even an abstract syntax tree for use in a parser. It makes no assumptions as to your intended usage, but instead simply provides the structure and means of accessing and traversing said structure. . This module uses exceptions and a minimal Design By Contract style. All method arguments are required unless specified in the documentation, if a required argument is not defined an exception will usually be thrown. Many arguments are also required to be of a specific type, for instance the $parent argument to the constructor must be a Tree::Simple object or an object derived from Tree::Simple, otherwise an exception is thrown.