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On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:43:12 +0200, Roland Giersig <rgiersig@cpan.org> wrote: > Johan Vromans wrote: > > [Quoting Roland Giersig, on August 4 2008, 12:23, in "Re: Fighting the Goo"] > >> I was thinking along the lines: > >> > >> package Iterator::Diamond; > >> @ISA = qw(Iterator::Files); > > > > Yes, that's what I'm thinking, too. > > Well, come to think of, maybe not ISA Iterator::Files, but 'use > Iterator::Files' instead, as the interface should be completely hidden > behind ARGV and friends. > > > > BTW, would Iterator::FileList be a better name? > > I don't think so, because you are mainly iterating over file content > (lines), not file(name)s per se. So Iterator::FileListContent would be > more appropriate, but too long for us lazy typists... ;-) > > Iterator::Lines > Iterator::FileListLines > Iterator::Slurpy (I like that one, needs a cute mascot though... ;o)) > > hmm, it doesn't need to be lines, so maybe > > Iterator::Chunks > Iterator::FileChunks > > Any other brainstorms? Iterator::Content Iterator::Stream -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, SuSE 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/