NAME

       Acme::POE::Knee - Time sliced pony race using the POE kernel.

REQUIREMENTS

           Acme::POE::Knee requires the POE module to run. You can get that as well
           from CPAN or look at poe.sourceforge.net

SYNOPSIS

           #!/usr/bin/perl -w
           use strict;

           # Use POEny!
           use Acme::POE::Knee;

           # Every Acme::POE::Knee race will require a set of arguments.
           # There are defaults but it's just more fun to set these
           # yourselves. We set a distance the ponies must run and of course
           # we name our race ponies! You'll have to specify the maximum
           # delay a pony can have before reaching the next stage.
           # The lower the delay, the higher the chances are the pony will
           # win the race.

           my $pony = new Acme::POE::Knee (
               dist        => 20,
               ponies  => {
                   'dngor'     => 5,
                   'Abigail'   => 5.2,
                   'Co-Kane'   => 5.4,
                   'MJD'       => 5.6,
                   'acme'      => 5.8,
               },
           );

           # start the race
           $pony->race( );

           exit;

QUICK LINKS

       Please see the samples directory in POE's distribution for several well-commented sample
       and tutorial programs.

       Please see <http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/01/poe.html> for an excellent, and more
       importantly: gradual, introduction to POE.

DESCRIPTION

       POE::Knee is an acronym of "Pony".  We all like ponies. And wouldn't we love to race
       ponies? Well, that's what Acme::POE::Knee is for!

       It's great for those friday afternoons at the office, where you wonder who will pay the
       beer tab. Whoever 'wins' the race, loses!

       You specify a distance the ponies must run, and a maximum delay before the pony will reach
       the next step. So, the bigger the delay, the bigger the distance between multiple ponies
       can be.

       Of course this wouldn't be any fun if we couldn't name the ponies ourselves. Here, we
       simply put all our race ponies in an array reference and the Acme::POE::Knee module will
       take care of the rest.

USING Acme::POE::Knee

       Using Acme::POE::Knee is really easy.  This simple progam would already suffice:

           use strict;
           use Acme::POE::Knee;

           my $pony = new Acme::POE::Knee;
           $pony->race();
           exit;

       This will use the defaults of the POE::Knee module, but you can of course specify your own
       arguments, as shown in the synopsis.

The Use of Acme::POE::Knee

       Use, yes... Usefull? Probably not. This was written in responce to a rather persistant
       meme on #perl (you know who you are!).  Basicly, we all wanted ponies.  Well folks, here
       it is.

       It's source might be interesting to look at for newcomers to POE to see how this time
       slicing works.

Learning more about POE

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   Author
       Jos Boumans
         Jos Boumans is <kane_at_cpan.org>.  POE::Knee is his brainchild.

       Rocco Caputo
         Rocco Caputo is <troc+poe@netrus.net>.  POE itself is his creation.

   COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 2001, Jos Boumans. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software. It may
       be used, redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the Perl Artistic License (see
       http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html)

       Except where otherwise noted, POE is Copyright 1998-2001 Rocco Caputo.  All rights
       reserved.  POE is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.