Promises (was: Re: Light-weight monitor implementation?)
Bert Freudenberg
bert at impara.de
Thu Nov 3 10:17:28 UTC 2005
Am 03.11.2005 um 10:27 schrieb Cees De Groot:
> On 11/3/05, Lukas Renggli <renggli at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yet another thing I would love to have are Promises:
>>
>> result := [ self someCalc ] promise.
>> self someOtherCalc.
>> result value
>
> But then with E semantics, not the VW stuff....
We have that, in Croquet (not in the current Jasmine release, but the
next one, Hedgehog [*], provides messaging semantics very much like E).
- Bert -
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