From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Achim Gratz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal for a new mechanism for delayed stuff Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:49:54 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87pq1y46ao.fsf@gnus.org> <87ip7o7vnr.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87bodgt9wb.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356605531 26966 80.91.229.3 (27 Dec 2012 10:52:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:52:11 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 27 11:52:25 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ToB4Y-00075i-VB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:52:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56851 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ToB4K-0001Xk-Ju for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 05:52:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34773) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ToB40-0001Xc-Re for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 05:52:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ToB2E-0005j9-6z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 05:51:48 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35811) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ToB2E-0005j4-0H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 05:49:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ToB2P-00069U-Tb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:50:09 +0100 Original-Received: from p578f134e.dip.t-dialin.net ([87.143.19.78]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:50:09 +0100 Original-Received: from Stromeko by p578f134e.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:50:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p578f134e.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0.11) Gecko/20121115 Thunderbird/10.0.11 In-Reply-To: <87bodgt9wb.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:155932 Archived-At: 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 :-)