Re: fixing the current email module

On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:25 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> The email package has access to the wire format, and knows what to do
> with most of it.  It should DTRT where that is possible, and punt
> where not.  By "punt" I mean return a special object containing as
> much of the meta data for an object as it could recover, along with
> the data itself as a blob.
>
> I would suggest that module utilities that require access to the
> parsed form of data be designed as object methods.  The special
> objects produced when broken wire format is encountered wouldn't have
> those methods, and thus they'd fail the duck type test.  But that
> makes sense: that "duck" can't quack anyway.

This is a very interesting idea that I think I like!

-Barry