From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2008-06-19T22:54:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Advice for pluggable architecture

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:

> I am not sure whether this is a good idea: you force selection of the
> algorithm into the data stream.
Excellent point, that was what I wanted to avoid in the first place.
<snip>
>
> I'd prefer making the mode part of the filter command line, i.e.
>
> ls -lR | rubyfilter myMode
> ls -lR | ruby -r rubyfilter myMode
>
> or even chaining with
>
> ls -lR | rubyfilter myMode,myOtherMode
> ls -lR | ruby -r rubyfilter myMode,myOtherMode
I will probably go for

rubyfilter -m mode
rubyfilter --mode mode

this is the unix way I guess ;)

the rest of your remarks need more thinking, thx.
R