From: Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com>
To: Anton Bachin <antronbachin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ivan Gotovchits <ivg@ieee.org>,
"caml-list\@inria.fr users" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] Lwt 2.7.0 – monadic promises; concurrent I/O
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2017 10:56:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8637gvdtpj.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E0A0A1C-BEEE-464C-907E-663038F0DAF6@gmail.com> (Anton Bachin's message of "Fri, 6 Jan 2017 13:41:34 -0600")
Anton Bachin <antronbachin@gmail.com> writes:
> Ivan,
>
> I personally would have preferred to call them futures. I actually come
> from a C++ background, including modern C++, and also I just like the
> word "future" more than "promise."
To add some more terminology to the mix, I have generally seen Future
and Promise being two sides of the same thing. A Future is a read-only
value that can be determined to a value and a Promise is the side that
can be set. The wikipedia entry uses this terminology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_and_promises
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-07 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-06 16:08 Anton Bachin
2017-01-06 18:00 ` Ivan Gotovchits
2017-01-06 18:12 ` Ivan Gotovchits
2017-01-06 18:39 ` Xavier Van de Woestyne
2017-01-06 19:41 ` Anton Bachin
2017-01-06 20:36 ` Ivan Gotovchits
2017-01-07 10:56 ` Malcolm Matalka [this message]
2017-01-09 17:04 ` Andreas Rossberg
2017-01-11 8:57 ` Michael Grünewald
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