Message-Passing

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/22/12 3:18 PM, Manu wrote:
> On 22 January 2012 18:42, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org
> <mailto:sean at invisibleduck.org>> wrote:
>
>     The popularity of a language has no bearing on the quality of one of
>     its features. Are there other message passing schemes you prefer?
>
>
> As said in the original post, I think receiveOnly() is the most
> intuitive API. I just think that one should be named receive(), and
> perhaps receive() may be renamed receiveMulti(). Surely that would be
> more intuitive to more people?

Names will not change.

> Also both Only and Multi varieties should have a Timeout version, and I
> would love to see a poll()/pollMulti() function.

This is sensible. You may want to add functions through pull requests, 
or make enhancement requests on bugzilla.


Thanks,

Andrei