From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-05-18T03:08:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Nonblocking socket-connect

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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