From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: About 'futures' Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 19:04:17 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110315507 15460 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2005 20:58:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:58:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 21:58:26 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8jAX-0005f7-Kt for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 19:10:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8jP3-0005zE-BC for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:25:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8jNA-0005YI-62 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:24:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8jMw-0005Q8-JO for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:23:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8jMw-0005OR-65 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:23:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [129.217.163.1] (helo=mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D8j48-0000to-PP for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:04:21 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0495544027; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:04:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (krusty [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04655-05-2; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:04:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from troy.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (troy.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.163.17]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4235444023; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:04:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by troy.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 520) id 976B5B96A; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:04:17 +0100 (CET) Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org, Mikael Djurfeldt User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4836 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4836 Hi, what is the difference between (join-thread (begin-thread (foo))) and (future-ref (future (foo))) I am thinking about implementing futures as just (define-macro (future exp) `(begin-thread ,exp)) (define future-ref join-thread) Would that make sense? _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel