On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:32:07AM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote: > Rocco Caputo wrote: > >I think it would be misleading to imply that this code only works with > >IRC. > > Even so, what you are doing is inherantly an IRC-ish thing to want to do. > > Wouldn't you still refer to non-IRC but IRC-like chatrooms as IRC? It's > a concept beyond the protocol IMHO.
With all due respect, I think Internet Relay Chat is better suited as a particular instance of the class of short-message systems rather than the archetype beneath which all manner of SM and IM systems should be lumped. I base this on simple taxonomy, and not merely because Net::IRC::AIM does not exist yet Net::AIM does. Even so, it seems misleading to imply that this code only works with a network. With the right parser, it could thread conversation in a teleplay as easily as that from a short-message system. Maybe Text::Chat::Threader? -- Rocco Caputo - http://poe.perl.org/
