From: normalperson@...
Date: 2015-05-06T20:53:10+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:69081] [Ruby trunk - Feature #11122] [Open] exception-free non-blocking Queue/SizedQueue operations

Issue #11122 has been reported by Eric Wong.

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Feature #11122: exception-free non-blocking Queue/SizedQueue operations
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11122

* Author: Eric Wong
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: Yukihiro Matsumoto
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I would like to reduce exceptions for non-blocking operations on
Queue/SizedQueue in the same way we are reducing exceptions for non-blocking
I/O with *_nonblock(..., exception: false) methods.

However, I'm unclear what the API would be, since queues return Ruby objects
instead of String buffers or number of bytes written, so any special
object/symbol we would return could conflict with existing applications.

Perhaps something like:

	queue.pop(nonblock: :WAIT)
	queue.push(obj, nonblock: :WAIT)

Which would allow user to specify which object to raise when a queue is empty
or full (similar to Timeout.timeout allowing specific exception to raise).




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