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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@Nexgo.DE>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal for a new mechanism for delayed stuff
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:49:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kbh947$p0i$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bodgt9wb.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>

Am 27.12.2012 05:08, schrieb Stephen J. Turnbull:
> "break" seems to be the obvious choice of inline syntactic keyword.
> Since this is Lisp, I guess its semantics would need to be extended to
> "break and return value".

All languages I know that have a syntactic "break" use it to modify 
local control flow.  Unless I missed some vital part of the discussion, 
we'd want to terminate an async process that has used up the time budget 
alotted to it.  So I don't see "break" as an obvious nor appropriate choice.


-- 
Achim.

(on the road :-)




  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-27 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-25 13:20 Proposal for a new mechanism for delayed stuff Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-25 13:52 ` Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-25 19:57 ` Karl Fogel
2012-12-26 14:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-27  4:08   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-12-27 10:49     ` Achim Gratz [this message]
2012-12-27 14:43       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-12-27  9:40 ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-12-27 14:01   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-29  6:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-31 14:09   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-01-03 16:47     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-03 23:34       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-01-04  1:56         ` Stefan Monnier

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