From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-10-07T15:04:25+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Sequence 0.1.0 Released

Caleb Clausen wrote:
> Sequence version 0.1.0 has been released!
> 
>  http://rubyforge.org/projects/sequence
>  http://sequence.rubyforge.org/
> 
> Sequence is a wrapper api for accessing data in Strings, Arrays,
> Files, IOs, and Enumerations. Each sequence encapsulates some
> data and a current position within it. There are methods for
> moving the position, reading and writing data(with or without
> moving the position) forward or backward from the current
> position (or anywhere at all), scanning for patterns (like
> StringScanner, but it works in Files too, among others), and
> saving a position that will remain valid even after data is
> deleted or inserted elsewhere within the sequence.

[snip]

Sounds interesting... is it better than Eric M's Cursor
class? Different in some significant way?


Hal