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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:20:58 +0100
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Rob Pike wrote:
> callbacks for i/o are particularly egregious.  i've seen callbacks
> for certain parsing applications that worked fairly cleanly.  the
> difference is that in one case we're avoiding threads and being
> asynchronous, while in the other we're just turning case statements
> into function calls.

i'm all for the latter.