[Sprog-commit] SF.net SVN: sprog:[797] modules/sprog/trunk/lib/Sprog/help/connectors.pod

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Revision: 797
          http://sprog.svn.sourceforge.net/sprog/?rev=797&view=rev
Author:   grantm
Date:     2008-08-21 10:11:19 +0000 (Thu, 21 Aug 2008)

Log Message:
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add missing description of list gears

Modified Paths:
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    modules/sprog/trunk/lib/Sprog/help/connectors.pod

Modified: modules/sprog/trunk/lib/Sprog/help/connectors.pod
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--- modules/sprog/trunk/lib/Sprog/help/connectors.pod	2006-07-28 20:50:23 UTC (rev 796)
+++ modules/sprog/trunk/lib/Sprog/help/connectors.pod	2008-08-21 10:11:19 UTC (rev 797)
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 You can only connect two gears together if the output connector of the first
 gear matches the input connector of the second.
 
-There are currently two types of connector:
+There are currently three types of connector:
 
 =head2 Pipe Connectors
 
@@ -17,8 +17,14 @@
 =head2 Record Connectors
 
 The record connector is used to pass structured data as a sequences of records.
-Each record is a Perl hash.
+Each record is a Perl hash (i.e.: fields are name => value pairs).
 
 Generally if a gear has a record output connector, the help page for the gear
 will list what keys you can expect to find in each record hash.
 
+=head2 List Connectors
+
+The list connector is similar to a record connector but each record is a Perl
+array rather than a hash (i.e.: a record is a list of field values, the record
+does not include field names).
+


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