documentation: emitter.setMaxListeners(Infinity)

[jasonkarns]

Instead of recommending 0 as the magic value to set max listeners to unlimited, recommend Infinity.

closes #22987

[jasnell]

@misterdjules ... I'm inclined to close this as the documentation does accurately reflect the implementation and conventional use. Wanted to check with you before I did, however.

[jasonkarns]

It reflects the implementation, but I argue that the implementation is poor. Intending 0 to represent Infinity when there is already the Infinity constant is nonsense. Of course, it doesn't make sense at this point to change the implementation; but changing the documentation to reflect a more meaningful value (that works functionally identical) can pave the way for the implementation to be improved in the future.

[jasnell]

That may very well be the case. Currently, the right place to pursue a
change would be in the new repo. Perhaps open a new issue or PR against
http://github.com/nodejs/node?
On Aug 15, 2015 6:06 AM, "Jason Karns" [email protected] wrote:

It reflects the implementation, but I argue that the implementation is
poor. Intending 0 to represent Infinity when there is already the Infinity
constant is nonsense. Of course, it doesn't make sense at this point to
change the implementation; but changing the documentation to reflect a more
meaningful value (that works functionally identical) can pave the way for
the implementation to be improved in the future.

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[jasonkarns]

closing in favor of nodejs/node#2559