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On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:57:20PM -0700, Austin Schutz wrote: > > IO::Tty. IO::Stty. IO::Tty is useful and contains constants and so on, but it isn't an IO::Handle subclass. Can be quite cute. IO::Stty is also not an IO::Handle subclass, and has a somewhat odd interface. > I don't see what this really adds above and beyond the core POSIX > module and those two, but if you really like your "combined" syntax > I guess that's something. It's a small subclass around IO::Handle, that adds useful methods to handle objects themselves. It's similar to what IO::Socket and friends adds to IO::Handle from Socket. I'm doing the same for TTYs... > > use IO::Termios -upgrade; > > > > STDIN->setflag_echo( 0 ); > > my $password = <STDIN>; > > STDIN->setflag_echo( 1 ); Such as this. Sure you -can- do that with the other modules, but this makes it much more convenient. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd@leonerd.org.uk ICQ# 4135350 | Registered Linux# 179460 http://www.leonerd.org.uk/Thread Previous