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The Perl 5 module autobox::Core wraps perl's built-in functions for
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manipulating numbers, strings, arrays, hashes, and code references.
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It can be handy to use built-in functions as methods to avoid messy
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dereferencing syntaxes and parentheses pile ups.
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The autobox module lets you call methods in scalars that aren't
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object references but perl but does not itself provide any methods
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to call. That is left to the user or another module, for example,
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autobox::Core.
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autobox::Core is a stub module. It is merely glue, presenting
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existing functions with a new interface. Besides built-ins that
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operate on hashes, arrays, scalars, and code references, some Perl
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6-ish things were thrown in, and some keyword like foreach have
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been turned into methods.
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