Author: wayland
Date: 2009-02-27 09:16:28 +0100 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009)
New Revision: 25610
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod
Log:
IO.pod: Got rid of code, replaced it with spec
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod
===================================================================
--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod 2009-02-27 07:42:32 UTC (rev
25609)
+++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod 2009-02-27 08:16:28 UTC (rev
25610)
@@ -61,9 +61,10 @@
=item uri
IO::Streamable method uri(Str $uri);
+ IO::Streamable sub uri(Str $uri);
Returns an appropriate IO::Streamable descendant, with the type depending on
the uri
-passed in. Here's the mapping:
+passed in. Here are some example mappings:
URI type IO type
======== =======
@@ -71,15 +72,12 @@
ftp: IO::Socket::TCP (data channel)
http: IO::Socket::TCP
-IO::Streamable method uri(Str $uri) {
- $uri.match(/^<alnum>+\:/);
- return(&$PROTOCOLS{$1}($uri));
-}
+These can naturally be overridden or added to by other modules.
=item %PROTOCOLS global variable
-For each protocol, stores a subroutine reference that returns the appropriate
object when
-the URI is passed in.
+For each protocol, stores a type name that should be instantiated by calling
the .uri()
+constructor on that type, and passing in the appropriate uri.
=back
