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J. David Blackstone has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering and nine years of experience at a wireless telecommunications company, where he learned Perl and never looked back. J. David has an advantage in that he works really hard, he has a passion for writing good software, and he knows many of the world's best Perl programmers.
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Friday July 18, 2003
09:39 AM
Annoying interfaces
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!
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It's an opportunity! (Score:1)
Re:It's an opportunity! (Score:2)
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! (Score:2)