[zeromq-dev] Cleaning-up context creation API

Pieter Hintjens ph at imatix.com
Thu Feb 16 02:22:19 CET 2012


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Brian Smith <brian at linuxfood.net> wrote:

> On the other hand, even lacking an object following them, "get" and "set"
> and set are "pretty standard" nomenclature.
> Obviously, this is bike shedding, but, FWIW, I think 0mq has historically
> done pretty well when it comes to the linguistic design of the API. When
> looking for how do something,

Parts of the 0MQ API are familiar but overall it's not consistent and
as a heavy user of the API that has always been annoying. I note that
the API was designed by people who _never_ used it.

I do agree that get/set (something) makes sense and will try that
change now in the pull request
(https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/pull/249)

-Pieter



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