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My main objection:

my $foo = io('some/thing');

Yes it would be better to trap such a mistake ASAP. Would this be OK?

my $foo = io(-filename => 'some/thing');

You could even add some kind of policy enforcement aspect that will trap all dubious instantiations on runtime.

I am not worried about a developer calling $foo->slurp when the intention was to use $foo as a directory, for the same reason that I am not worried about it being used as a Person object. It is just a coincidence that file and directory features are in the same physical package.

BTW: The Java class java.io.File is also a file or a directory, and it implements some methods that are directory specific, like listFiles(). So it is a similar situation, despite the static typing. Of course that is a poor example, and anybody with a brain would use a util lib, e.g. the apache commons.

It is leaky abstraction, but it looks like a pretty cool one to me! The freedom from having to check return values is a justification for this by itself.


In reply to Re: Re: Ingy's "Swiss Army Light Sabre" - or, "how do you design your APIs?" by mvc
in thread Ingy's "Swiss Army Light Sabre" - or, "how do you design your APIs?" by kal

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