On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 18:07, Ian Barber <ian.bar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have to say that with pub side filtering I think not having subscribe all > as a default makes even more sense - the socket shouldn't be sending a > subscribe message on creation unless you explicitly ask it to. Yes it's a > mistake that pretty much every beginner makes, but if we wanted to make that > impossible we could just throw an error if you try and do a blocking recv() > on a SUB socket that has no subscriptions whatsoever - a state I can't think > of any realistic use cases for.
Also, fixing the beginner mistake should be done by fixing the docs in every place somewhat related to SUB sockets/pubsub, not by introducing code that creates non-optimal performance scenarios and/or is kind of hacky. Cheers, Dirkjan _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
