From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-12-02T20:50:12+09:00
Subject: Re: cidr.rb: port of Perl's Net::CIDR v0.11 available


Jos Backus wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:03:59AM +0900, Daniel Berger wrote:
> > Hm, I'll have to think about the API.  I suppose the most simple
> > approach is to just add accessors for duration and ip_address (with a
> > 'nil' value by default).  In practice, then, your code would look like this:
> >
> > if p.ping?
> >    puts p.ip_address
> >    puts p.duration
> > end
> >
> > How does that look?
>
> I like this much better than the positional API that Perl uses here ("Is
> duration the 1st or 2nd return value?"). Plus it makes it easy to add futher
> items down the road without breaking existing code. +1.

Ok, I'll add those.  However, don't put too much stock in the duration.
 Looking at the Perl code, it isn't much more than this:

start = Time.now
p.ping?
duration = Time.now - start

And you can get the ip via IPSocket.getaddress(host)

Regards,

Dan