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On Sun, 7 May 2000, Ilya Zakharevich wrote: > Applicable to Tk, but not to DB_File. There *is* a DB_File API, but > you do not need to know it: all you do is tie()ing. [Unless you > consider tie %foo, 'DB_File' to be an API - in some sense it is, in > some sense it is not.] Yes, I do consider it to be an API, because it is one. You have to know the "magic line," as Simon put it. I wrote and maintain a module that provides tie()-based API - IPC::SharedCache. Just saying that it uses tie() is not enough for you to go and start using the module - you must learn the specific API for IPC::SharedCache which happens to involve tie(). > use Math::BigInt ':constant'; > > would allow you use Math::BigInt without any (further) knowledge of > the API. "Similarly" just installing Term::ReadLine::Perl would make > your scripts more user-friendly, this time without *ANY* knowledge of > the API. Counter-point accepted. I don't think this is the case with tie()-based modules though. At the very least, I know that it is not the case with the tie()-based modules I've written. -samThread Previous | Thread Next