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From: Tom Lord <lord@regexps.com>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: why asyncs were created
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 17:05:49 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209030005.RAA08472@morrowfield.regexps.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wuq4ez64.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (message from Marius Vollmer on 03 Sep 2002 01:42:43 +0200)



	> As a clarification, I have in mind to keep the "async" name and the
	> "async" behavior, but an async does not need to continue to be an
	> opaque object; it could just be a normal procedure that is used in a
	> special way.


Ah -- a representation issue, not a semantic issue?

What replaces the `got_it' flag in an async object?  I.e., the bit 
that says an async needs to be run, but could not be run when the
low-level or user-supplied signal was delivered?

-t




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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-02 22:55 why asyncs were created Tom Lord
2002-09-02 23:42 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-09-03  0:05   ` Tom Lord [this message]
2002-09-02 23:57     ` Marius Vollmer

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