[zeromq-dev] [otish] "Why ZeroMQ"

Martin Sustrik sustrik at 250bpm.com
Tue Jul 27 12:13:31 CEST 2010


Nicholas Piël wrote:

> Maybe a better naming would be, instream, outstream

I like it. It addresses exactly the problem people are having, namely: 
"What's UP and what's DOWN?"

IN and OUT is unambiguous as opposed to UP and DOWN.

Moreover, migration from old names is pretty straightforward: 
UPSTREAM->INSTREAM, DOWNSTREAM->OUTSTREAM.

Martin



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