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From: Eryq <eryq@zeegee.com>
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Subject: Announce: IO-stringy 1.110 uploaded to CPAN
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Date: 31 Mar 1998 23:31:20 GMT
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The latest version of IO-stringy has been uploaded to the
CPAN. It provides the following Perl modules... (* = new!)

  IO::
* ::Lines        bdpO  I/O handle to read/write to array of lines   ERYQ
  ::Scalar       RdpO  I/O handle to read/write to a string         ERYQ
  ::ScalarArray  RdpO  I/O handle to read/write to array of scalars ERYQ
  ::Wrap         RdpO  Wrap old-style FHs in IO::-like interface    ERYQ
* ::WrapTie      adpO  Tie your handles & retain full OO interface  ERYQ

The most interesting development has been IO::WrapTie, which can be
used with IO::Scalar, IO::ScalarArray, and the (new) IO::Lines.
It allows tiehandle-ready classes to provide instances which
look and feel almost exactly like real IO::Handles, even if such
classes don't use file descriptors at all.  That is, you can (under
5.004+) inherit your FooHandle class from IO::WrapTie::Mixin and say...

	my $foo = FooHandle->new_tie("bar", "baz");
	print $foo "this", "that";
	$foo->print("the other\n"); 
	
I would *very* much welcome comments on IO::WrapTie; future distributions
may have it seamlessly used by IO::Scalar and friends.

Numerous other suggested improvements/additions have been made.
Full distribution also on-line at:

        http://www.zeegee.com/code/perl/IO-stringy

Documentation online, at:

        http://www.zeegee.com/code/perl/IO-stringy/docs/IO/Scalar.pm.html

Enjoy!

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