On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:28 PM, John Taylor <jontayler-at-gmail.com> wrote:
> Wouldn't it just issue an unregister in this situation (after all, the hub
> doesn't know that the app has shut down, but it certainly can forcibly
> unregister it)?
You're probably right, it was a bad example. The point is, unregistering and shutting down are two distinct activities and mtypes are supposed to have a clear meaning. No doubt people will write apps that infer something has shut down simply because it unregisters, but that isn't always true.
I claim app.event.shutdown has a clear and distinct meaning apart from the unregister mtype, it serves an administrative function, and does no harm. So, feeling more strongly about now as I apparently do, please leave it in.
-Mike Received on 2008-06-10Z21:44:58