[#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: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-05-17 18:23:27 UTC
List: ruby-core #7900
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!

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