From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-05-17T22:07:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Nonblocking socket-connect

On 5/17/06, Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@gmail.com> wrote:
> My opinion only, but when I see bang at the end of a method name, it makes
> me think that it will result in some possibly dangerous change to the object
> itself, rather than urgency.
>
> Earlier I proposed Socket#nbconnect and TCPServer#nbaccept and
> Socket#nbrecvfrom (I think these are ones that are most needed, the rest can
> be done with sysread and syswrite. Not sure yet about datagram sends.) This
> proposal has the advantage that it makes sense in English (read "nbaccept"
> as "nonblocking accept") but the potential disadvantage that the methods
> will bunch up together in alphabetical lists. Another possibility would be
> to add "nb" as a suffix: acceptnb, connectnb, etc.

#accept_nonblock, #connect_nonblock, and #recvfrom_nonblock would be
good choices in my opinion.

They're clear that they're for nonblocking behaviour.

-austin
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