Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] Search Engine Questions

[Richard Gordon <maccgi@bellsouth.net>]

At 13:35 -0400 4/14/1999, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>WARNING: If you prefer to avoid object-oriented Perl, then this isn't
>for you...
>
>My solution to a similar problem (not in Perl orginally, but I'll do a
>rough translation) has been to implement an iterator class that can be
>"frozen" and "thawed".  As someone else suggested, you'll keep track of
>what files still need to be searched and of your current offset in the
>current file.  While your script is running, that info will exist in the
>form of an object.  The replies you send back will include a "frozen"
>copy of the object -- i.e., a URL-safe string in the form of a param in
>the URL

That's very interesting and I'm going to have to print your message 
out in order to absorb it, but I think that I see what you are 
talking about. May I ask what language you were originally using?


Richard Gordon
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