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Johan Vromans wrote: > Roland Giersig <rgiersig@cpan.org> writes: > >> Could we please have a more general Iterator::Files that takes a list >> of filenames with new()? >> >> $input = Iterator::Files->new(@filelist); > > I don't think that is a good idea. > > Since Iterator::Diamond is intended to behave like <>, it must operate > on global @ARGV, $ARGV and ARGVOUT. I was thinking along the lines: package Iterator::Diamond; @ISA = qw(Iterator::Files); # deal with ARGV, <> overloading, etc here > Alternatively, I could limit the use of @ARGV, $ARGV and ARGVOUT to > the case where no explicit file list is used. Maybe, but that's too cluttered for me. Keep It Simple... No, a generally-usable worker class with a specialized child class would be the right way, I think... Cheers! RolandThread Previous | Thread Next