From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marko Rauhamaa Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: anyone define port types? Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:50:21 +0300 Message-ID: <87shw4fd42.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> References: <87y492mnjp.fsf@pobox.com> <87pots9tag.fsf@gnu.org> <87bn37wtf2.fsf@pobox.com> <20160612092513.3eb1c8a3@laptop.homenet> <8760t5mthu.fsf@pobox.com> <20160619163327.36246706@dell.homenet> <8737o9kr3g.fsf@pobox.com> <20160619210912.48528ffa@dell.homenet> <20160620074503.6d06426b@dell.homenet> <87y460jou5.fsf@pobox.com> <20160620100157.530fc347@dell.homenet> <20160622234450.773f313f@bother.homenet> <8760t0qru7.fsf@pobox.com> <20160623102421.3ff83743@bother.homenet> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466675453 25142 80.91.229.3 (23 Jun 2016 09:50:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:50:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user , guile-devel To: Chris Vine Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 23 11:50:46 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-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 1bG1HZ-0002AK-FW for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 11:50:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35579 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bG1HY-0007Y9-Mb for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 05:50:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40201) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bG1HP-0007TR-Rd for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 05:50:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bG1HN-0002pe-Tu for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 05:50:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [2001:1bc8:1a0:5384:7a2b:cbff:fe9f:e508] (port=47698 helo=pacujo.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bG1HH-0002kz-30; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 05:50:27 -0400 Original-Received: from elektro.pacujo.net (192.168.1.200) by elektro.pacujo.net; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:50:21 +0300 Original-Received: by elektro.pacujo.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:50:21 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20160623102421.3ff83743@bother.homenet> (Chris Vine's message of "Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:24:21 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2001:1bc8:1a0:5384:7a2b:cbff:fe9f:e508 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:18397 gmane.lisp.guile.user:12691 Archived-At: Chris Vine : > First, there will always be a use for an event loop to do event-loopy > things, irrespective of whether and how a coroutine interface is put > around it. Sometimes you want to abstract things away, sometimes you > don't. Callback hell is my preferred programming paradigm. Any attempts to abstract it away are going to lead to a worse mess. Marko