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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada-Oriented GUI
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:11:30 +0100
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On 2018-03-21 20:51, Dan'l Miller wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 2:11:13 PM UTC-5, Simon Wright wrote:
>> I suspect that Dmitry only meant that output-pending must occur before
>> output-complete, whichever thread you view it from.
> 
> I assume that output here is event emission from the head-end of the river from the upstream perspective of producing output to downstream receivers that handle that output-from-upstream as input.  

This is not how asynchronous I/O works in many cases. The I/O request is 
queued in one thread, initiated in another, processed in third, 
completed in fourth.

Your approach seem to impose some heavy constraint not just on GUI as 
many existing frameworks do, which people really hate, but on all 
system. Good luck with that, but don't expect everybody to embrace that.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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