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Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:24:29 -0800
From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
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> you can't just call a function and have it return the value you wanted, you know. no, no no.
> you need to ask someone who promises to progress the action on your request and get back to you.

the async call/callback stuff is very annoying.  many multithreaded
systems in c++ have to resort to it for anything that blocks.  a good
thread library - that doesn't require one to change religion to use it
- and the concept of channels would sure make a lot of that stuff go
away.