Re: [Expectperl-discuss] using multiple expect objects

[Austin S. <te...@of...>]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 03:26:00PM -0500, Blackstone, J. David wrote:
>   I don't think you're supposed to use pids with -i; I think you're supposed
> to use the Expect object itself.  Otherwise, how would it get the object to
> expect on?
> 
	That's right. I think the docs are clear on that point, but they
seem a little vague that expect isn't supposed to be called as an object
method:

       $object->expect($timeout, @match_patterns)
           or, more like Tcl/Expect,

             expect($timeout,
                    '-i', [ $obj1, $obj2, ... ],
                          [ $re_pattern, sub { ...; exp_continue; }, @subparms, 
                          [ 'eof', sub { ... } ],
                          [ 'timeout', sub { ... }, \$subparm1 ],
                    '-i', [ $objn, ...],
                          '-ex', $exact_pattern, sub { ... },
                          $exact_pattern, sub { ...; exp_continue_timeout; },
                          '-re', $re_pattern, sub { ... },
                    '-i', \@object_list, @pattern_list,
                    ...);

	which might imply something like $object->expect($timeout, '-i'...).
Perhaps it would be clearer to have:

             Expect::expect($timeout,
                    '-i', [ $obj1, $obj2, ... ],
                          [ $re_pattern, sub { ...; exp_continue; }, @subparms, 
                          [ 'eof', sub { ... } ],
                          [ 'timeout', sub { ... }, \$subparm1 ],
                    '-i', [ $objn, ...],
                          '-ex', $exact_pattern, sub { ... },
                          $exact_pattern, sub { ...; exp_continue_timeout; },
                          '-re', $re_pattern, sub { ... },
                    '-i', \@object_list, @pattern_list,
                    ...);


	Austin