The name shouldn't include 'Storable' since that's an implementation detail. Something like IPC::Queue seems more reasonable.
Have you looked at BerkeleyDB's Queue API?: http://search-beta.cpan.org/author/PMQS/BerkeleyDB-0.19/BerkeleyDB.pod#COMMON_OPTIONS (scroll back a couple of pages) Tim. On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 01:51:33PM -0500, Eric Kidder wrote: > I am working on some modules which use Storable to handle higher data > structures. This is mainly for some neat IPC: > > # CLIENT > my $queue = Storable::Queue->new("queue.file"); > $queue->push($reference_to_some_data); > > # SERVER > my $queue = Storable::Queue->new("queue.file"); > my $data = $queue->peek(); > my @data; > > if ( $$data = "FRED" ) { > my @data = $queue->pop_all(); > } else { > $data = $queue->pop(); > } > > Anything "pushed" into the store file is kept in a queue/stack/whatever > format. Thus, you can have multiple programs pushing and popping and the > data will come out in the right order. Right now, I've called them > Storable::Queue, Storable::Stack, etc., but I've been wondering if that's > an appropriate place for them to go? > > Eric >
