Bug#779198: ITP: libparse-keyword-perl -- write syntax extensions in perl

Wed Feb 25 12:02:56 UTC 2015

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>

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* Package name    : libparse-keyword-perl
  Version         : 0.08
  Upstream Author : Jesse Luehrs <doy at tozt.net>
* URL             : https://metacpan.org/release/Parse-Keyword
* License         : Expat
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : write syntax extensions in perl (with only limited use)

 Parse::Keyword allows you to write keyword-based syntax extensions
 without requiring you to write any C code yourself. It is similar to
 Devel::Declare, except that it uses the Perl parser API introduced in
 Perl 5.14 in order to  allow you to parse parts of things using perl's
 own parser, rather than having to fake it with balanced brace matching
 or other fragile things.
 .
 NB! This module has fundamental errors in the way it handles closures,
 which are not fixable. Runtime keywords will never be able to work
 properly with the current design of this module. There are certain
 cases where this module is still safe to use (keywords that only have
 effect at compile time, or keywords that never call any of the parse_*
 functions), but that is limiting enough to make this module mostly
 worthless, and its author may not continue maintain it. Be warned!

Packaging will be maintained in the perl team.

Package is needed by libmoops-perl.