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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Lightweight tasks to implement co-routines?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 23:56:21 -0500
Date: 2017-07-31T23:56:21-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <olp1lm$ui8$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: olo5rp$dp0$1@gioia.aioe.org

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
news:olo5rp$dp0$1@gioia.aioe.org...
> On 2017-07-31 20:08, Victor Porton wrote:
...
> I have a vague idea that it should be an entry of some ad-hoc fake 
> protected object that would glue both calls together, or maybe an entry of 
> the "carrier" task. But I don't know how to make this easy to use and 
> encapsulated without exposing to other contexts.

Tucker Taft is proposing a construct called a "channel" for this purpose. It 
sounds interesting, but there are so few details it is impossible to tell. 
There is an AI for it (AI12-0197-4), but it is empty pending a real proposal 
from Tucker.

                         Randy.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-01  4:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-31 18:08 Lightweight tasks to implement co-routines? Victor Porton
2017-07-31 20:00 ` Simon Wright
2017-07-31 21:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-08-01  4:56   ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2017-08-01  6:47     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-08-01  4:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-08-01  6:49 ` Paul Rubin
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