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[Scott Penrose]

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On 29/03/2004, at 8:19 AM, Joshua Goodall wrote:

> Scott, this motivates yet another way: make your controlling class
> abstract, and then require the user to explictly request a subclass
> that implements the actual desired behaviour.   Since it's unlikely
> that someone will be working in both the character and the acq/control
> paradigms, they can request a concrete class that fits their
> requirements.

Maybe. But only if it is slow.

> You can also hide platform-specific implementations behind such a
> factory method, giving the illusion of portability.

It already does this. You just do this...

	my $pp = Device::ParallelPort->new();

now, if you don't specify a driver (and they look like dbi - eg: 
parport:0) then it uses auto.

Auto, looks at the Operating System and some files to see if you are on 
Linux with parport, else linux root, else windows, else HELP I DONT 
KNOW. As I implement new drivers, I will update auto to deal with the 
automatically. (I even been trying to think of a way of getting auto to 
find all drivers installed and ask each one in turn - like that of an 
Apache module handling an event).

	use Device::ParallelPort;
	my $pp = Device::ParallelPort->new();
	$pp->set_bit(0,1);

works with no code change on Linux (parport and direct io) and Windows 
already - and soon to be Free BSD.

Scott
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