You may want to use the words "Publish" and "Subscribe" to document your implementation of the well-understood "publish/subscribe model".

Depending on your audience, you may want to give your API more of an OO feel: 

   use Dispatcher qw(RequestDispatch ReadData SendData);

        my $d = new Dispatcher({host => "192.168.1.1",port => "1440"},
                "data1",
                "data2",
                "data3");

        foreach my $type (qw(data1 data2 data3)) {
                print "RECIEVED for ",
                        $d->read()->type , "\n\n";
                #  $d->read returns a Dispatcher::Record object, which
+ has a "type"
        }
        
        my $rec = $d->NewRecord({type=>"data4"}); # Returns a Dispatch
+er::Record object associated with $d
        $rec->send ("DATA"); # The Record already know what port, serv
+er, and type to use.
        $d->Port (1440);
        $rec->send("More Data on port 1440");

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Aoother suggestion is to used one of the canned POE wheels to implement your server. That way, your code becomes scalable, using multiple threads.

Compliments on the clean code!

     "Choose a job you like and you will never have to work a day of your life" - Confucius

In reply to Re: RFC: dispatcher UPDATED, now comes with API by NetWallah
in thread Node removed. by Trizor

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