.context {nanonext}

Technical Utility: Open Context

Description

Open a new Context to be used with a Socket. This function is a performance variant of context, designed to wrap a socket in a function argument when calling request or reply.

Usage

.context(socket)

Arguments

socket

a Socket.

Details

External pointers created by this function are unclassed, hence methods for contexts such as close will not work (use reap instead). Otherwise they function identically to a Context when passed to all messaging functions.

Value

An external pointer.