From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-05-18T03:23:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Nonblocking socket-connect

On Thu, 18 May 2006, Eric Hodel wrote:

> 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.

exit!

-a
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