[#7872] Nonblocking socket-connect — "Francis Cianfrocca" <garbagecat10@...>

All, I needed a nonblocking socket connect for my asynchronous-event

18 messages 2006/05/14
[#7873] Re: Nonblocking socket-connect — Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org> 2006/05/14

In article <3a94cf510605140559l7baa0205le341dac4f47d424b@mail.gmail.com>,

[#7874] Re: Nonblocking socket-connect — "Francis Cianfrocca" <garbagecat10@...> 2006/05/15

How about introducing the method Socket#set_nonblocking, or alternatively

[#7875] Re: Nonblocking socket-connect — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2006/05/15

Hi,

[#7876] Re: Nonblocking socket-connect — "Francis Cianfrocca" <garbagecat10@...> 2006/05/15

Well, it's ok then. I'm comfortable adding in the nonblocking

[#7877] Re: Nonblocking socket-connect — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2006/05/15

Hi,

Re: Nonblocking socket-connect

From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-05-17 18:08:28 UTC
List: ruby-core #7898
On May 17, 2006, at 4:13 AM, Vlad GALU wrote:

> On 5/15/06, Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@gmail.com> wrote:
>> How about Socket#nbconnect and Socket#nbaccept?
>
>  don't know the usual meaning of the exclamation mark, but I think
> it would be nice to use it in order to separate blocking routines from
> their non-blocking counterparts. Since usually the exclamation mark
> suggests impatience, I thought that socket.connect! would be quite
> appropriate to express the idea "connect now or else!", where "else"
> may as well mean return with an error. The same thing would be nice
> for other I/O routines too.

In ruby the ! usually means the method modifies the receiver where  
the non-bang returns a new object.  I can't think of an example where  
the ! signifies impatience in ruby.

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