Re^4: Net::IRC and File::Tail

POE is definitely a solution, in fact one of the examples in the POE Cookbook is an IRC bot that tails a logfile to a channel.

We're not surrounded, we're in a target-rich environment!

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Re^5: Net::IRC and File::Tail by Corion (Patriarch) on Aug 16, 2007 at 12:02 UTC
If you compare the needed framework knowledge and the code size of the two examples, you might understand why I consider POE a "solution". I find the programming model of POE especially inconvenient because the language does little to support something like local scope for event based/message passing systems, unless you consider manually keeping state in a stash as support. Still, thanks for pointing out that there is a working solution with POE and also pointing towards http://poe.perl.org which is a valuable resource if you want to use POE.	[reply]

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Re^5: Net::IRC and File::Tail
by Corion (Patriarch) on Aug 16, 2007 at 12:02 UTC

If you compare the needed framework knowledge and the code size of the two examples, you might understand why I consider POE a "solution". I find the programming model of POE especially inconvenient because the language does little to support something like local scope for event based/message passing systems, unless you consider manually keeping state in a stash as support.

Still, thanks for pointing out that there is a working solution with POE and also pointing towards http://poe.perl.org which is a valuable resource if you want to use POE.

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