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IO::Plumbing? (Score:2)
Have you have a look at mugwump's IO::Plumbing [cpan.org]? Maybe with a little more syntactic sugar it could do the kind of thing you're talking about.
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Thanks for the pointer. That looks mostly like what I was thinking of, indeed, just with a far clumsier API. Getting the API right is the tricky part – the implementation isn’t very exciting.
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Indeed -- that's one for the Hall of Lousy Interface Fame. I've toyed with extending IO::All to do this kind of thing, but never produced anything worth sharing.
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I’m not touching IO::All with a 10ft pole anyway. :-)
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The flashbacks stop... eventually.