On this date in history, I was annoyed by both HTML::TokeParser::Simple and Lingua::EN::Fathom in that the constructors for both take only a filename. In each case, I want to just send it a scalar variable full of content and have the processing done. I could use IO::Scalar to make my content appear to be a filehandle, but I need a filename.
Back at my old job, I used to code all kinds of procedures that would accept either a filename or a block of text. It was easy to just not have to worry about it.
Of course, who can complain? Both of these APIs do wonderful things!
Re:It's an opportunity!
acme on 2003-07-18T18:24:04
It's true that a lot of modules read/write from a scalar/file. It's annoying that all these modules have different interfaces and that we have to fake it sometimes with IO::Scalar.However, I see this more as an opportunity to define an API and try and get everyone else to follow it. Well volunteered!
Re:It's an opportunity!
Matts on 2003-07-19T17:27:11
We already defined on in XML::SAX. Maybe more people should follow it:-)
