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Re: Sockets Layer Counter Proposal

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On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:14:20 -0400, John Cowan <cowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My UDP-specific proposal at
<http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/DatagramChannelsCowan>, has two
constructors, make-datagram-channel for socket() followed by bind() and
make-output-only-datagram-channel for just socket().  I believe this is
a better division of labor than the standard one.

I would argue that this breaks the idea of having a procedure for creating sockets that can create sockets of any type and family. To follow this through you would need a new maker procedure (two, actually) for every single socket type, which hurts scalability and extensibility. Moreover, I would make the additional claim that this new paradigm, whether or not it is actually better, is not worth deviating from the underlying sockets paradigm, which is already well established. It is one thing to change or alter the names of things to match more closely to the conventions of the language, it's another to change the underlying API.

Like R[67]RS call-with-port, it makes sure the socket is closed if proc
terminates normally, a non-trivial difference.

Okay, in this case I fail to see the reason for the explicit socket argument. I do think that the automatic closing could be useful, but in the form specified by 106 I think it's too awkward and annoying to use. I'd probably prefer:

  (call-with-socket domain type protocol thunk)

IMHO "unix" (which is a trademark) should be suppressed in favor of "local"
in all these names.

I agree with favoring the ``local'' variation, but I think the unix name should be kept around as an equivalent.

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