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Introduction
What Reflex Is
Reflex is an object oriented approach to event-driven programming.
It provides an event driven base class.
Everything builds from there.
What Reflex Is Not
Your Mom
Although we'd like Reflex to be as widely used.
Authors
Rocco Caputo.
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License
Same terms as Perl itself.
Contributors
Chris Fedde.
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Functional Reference
Objects
Low-Level Events
Watching for I/O
Watching for Signals
Watching Processes
Waiting for Time
Convenience Classes
Accepting Client Connections
Connecting to Servers
Waiting for Peer Datagrams
Stream I/O
Protocols
Streams
Raw
Character Translations
Terminated Records
Lines
Length-Prepended Blocks
Serialized Perl Data Structures
Fixed-Length Blocks
Filters
Grep
Map
Class Reference
Reflex
Internal Helpers
Callback
CodeRef
Emit
Method
Null
Traits
Emitter
Observer
External Helpers
Callbacks
Watchers
Fd
Input
Output
Exception
Pid
Signal
Time Watchers
Interval
Alarm
Clients, Servers, and Peers
Acceptor
Connector
Receiver