Consumers and Suppliers

[Zhong Yu]

If you need to address a queue as a Consumer/Supplier, anything wrong with
queue::put and queue:take?

About the choice of name of "Consumer", I seriously hate it. It has a
connotation that the ownership of the object is transferred, and object
might be dissolved. In many of my use cases, "consumer" simply sounds
grotesque and totally misleading. I wish the choice was Procedure instead.
(I'm just venting, not asking for change.)

Zhong Yu


On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Howard Lovatt <howard.lovatt at gmail.com>wrote:

> If the method in Consumer was called put and the method in Supplier was
> called take, then Queue could be retrofitted to extend both Consumer and
> Supplier and then many collections could be Consumers and Suppliers.
>
> I think this would be useful - what do others think?
>
>   -- Howard.
>