From: Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com>
To: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>,
Karthik Chikmagalur <karthikchikmagalur@gmail.com>,
Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro>,
"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 23:00:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfcyp6kj.fsf@logand.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM=F=bAVWAdg8guFjw+L4WWz6k-TQ9G8d6LRF53f2X89d=r=aw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun 16 Apr 2023 at 23:46, Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems to me what one would really like is for primitives that might
> block to just return a future that's treated like any other value,
> except that "futurep" would return true and primitive operations would
> implicitly wait on the futures in their arguments.
Which programming language uses implicit await?
Sounds like a bad idea.
How would the language distinguish if the future should be awaited or
simply passed around? E.g. should (push future list) await the future
and push the value or push the future without awaiting?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-17 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-11 12:53 continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE Thomas Koch
2023-03-12 1:45 ` Jim Porter
2023-03-12 6:33 ` tomas
2023-03-14 6:39 ` Karthik Chikmagalur
2023-03-14 18:58 ` Jim Porter
2023-03-15 17:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2023-03-17 0:17 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-03-17 3:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2023-03-17 5:37 ` Jim Porter
2023-03-25 18:42 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-03-26 19:35 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-03-28 7:23 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-03-29 19:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-03 0:39 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-04-03 1:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-04-03 2:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-03 4:03 ` Po Lu
2023-04-03 4:51 ` Jim Porter
2023-04-10 21:47 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-04-11 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-11 19:59 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-04-11 20:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-11 23:07 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-04-12 6:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-17 20:51 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-04-18 2:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-18 5:01 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-04-18 10:35 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-04-18 15:31 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-03-29 18:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-17 3:46 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-04-17 19:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-18 2:56 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-04-18 3:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-22 2:48 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-04-18 6:19 ` Jim Porter
2023-04-18 9:52 ` Po Lu
2023-04-18 12:38 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-04-18 13:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-19 0:28 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2023-04-19 2:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-19 13:25 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-04-19 13:34 ` Robert Pluim
2023-04-19 14:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-21 1:33 ` Richard Stallman
2023-04-19 1:11 ` Po Lu
2023-04-17 21:00 ` Tomas Hlavaty [this message]
2023-03-14 3:58 ` Richard Stallman
2023-03-14 6:28 ` Jim Porter
2023-03-16 21:35 ` miha
2023-03-16 22:14 ` Jim Porter
2023-03-25 21:05 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2023-03-26 23:50 ` Tomas Hlavaty
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