On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:02 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>wrote:
> > The blocks aren't interesting at all by themselves, I totally agree with > > that. However what they do to let you write a function inline, that can > be > > pushed to another function, to be executed on a concurrent FIFO, is where > > the real power comes out. > > this reminds me of paul and byron's shell, es which had > anonymous blocks. in fact, that's how the if statement > worked. > > in c, i don't see why such a bolt-on would be useful in > c, especially since your concurrent fifo would be limited > to one shared-memory node unless you're going to add a runtime > compiler. > > Apple's using it all over the place in Snow Leopard, in all their native apps to write cleaner, less manual-lock code. At least, that's the claim :-). If by node you mean "single machine" then I suppose I agree, but this is not a distributed computing solution in the world of multi-node programming. Dave > - erik > >
