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on a sidenote.. (Score:1)

by Qiang (5577) on 2008.02.07 13:45 (#60946) Homepage Journal

i would name the function name as history_size instead of history to avoid confusion. but i agree what you have said.

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  by ferreira (5993)
  
  Most of the time, the method is used to get the whole history as an array.
  
  To give a more concrete background, I was working with the GetHistory method from Term::ReadLine::Gnu, Term::ReadLine::Perl and Term::ReadLine::Zoid when used by Shell::Base. That said, instead of trying to convince all involved authors to change code or/and documentation, I tried to work with the contrived and actual API.
  I agree that introducing a GetHistorySize method would eliminate instantly the problem associated to the ov

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