On Jul 26, 2010, at 10:15 PM, Oliver Smith wrote: > Pieter Hintjens said the following on 7/26/2010 2:53 PM: >> >> :) I personally do not like the current socket names, they seem >> inconsistent. There was a blog post with suggestions for new names but >> consensus was... we learned these names, don't change them now. >> >> > *begs for aliases* the upstream/downstream in particular is confusing > because the up/down is subjective to perspective and personal use of > terminology.
What alias would you suggest? I personally think that the naming of upstream/downstream is perfect for this unidirectional pattern. I use the 'wild water' or 'waterfall' metaphor where you can send something downstream but it is impossible to send something upstream (unless your a Trout). If you want to receive something you can only receive stuff from the upstream. Maybe this helps? By the way, great demo! :) _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
