[zeromq-dev] Language binding guidelines

[Chris Wong]

Hi Marin,

I can provide patches for 2 and 3.  Will put that on my list of to-dos.

Chris

On Mar 2, 2010, at 2:27 AM, Martin Sustrik wrote:

> Chris Wong wrote:
> 
>> 2. I prefer option 2.
>> 
>> ctxt = ZMQ::Context.new sock = ctxt.socket(ZMQ::PUB)
> 
> Yes. It looks like everybody prefers it this way.
> 
>> I'm developing a Ruby wrapper on top of rbzmq for more convenient
>> usage in Ruby.  When it's in a usable state, I'll post it here.
> 
> Great!
> 
>> 3. Ruby, like any GC based languages, needs explicit
>> close/term/disconnect methods for cleaning up resources used.  Even
>> for C++, I'd argue that it's better to avoid relying on destructor
>> 100% for implicit resource cleanup.  It's especially true in Java,
>> the finalizer is not guaranteed to be called upon process termination
>> AFAIK and it's unpredictable when it'd get called.  (Not saying that
>> Java's finalizer is the same as C++ destructor.)
> 
> Ok. Point taken. Would you like to patch 2 & 3 yourself?
> 
> Martin
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