Jason House wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
grauzone wrote:
Sometimes, you have to leave the more spiffy features to
languages like Erlang or Haskell which are suited better for
this. For example, Erlang doesn't share any state by default,
and in Haskell, everything is immutable. But they use very
special mechanisms to make up for the problems caused by
this, and that's why you can't just pick the cherries: it
won't fit, it will feel unnatural, and everything will be a
mess. It's a good idea to copy good features from other
languages, but never forget where you come from.
We plan to add the necessary mechanisms.
What mechanisms will these be? I'm sure others are curious too.
Still under discussion. We're considering for example
message-passing queues a la Erlang.
Andrei
Is there any chance of you/Walter posting your current conclusions
and open issues? There are many on this list, including myself, who
would enjoy participating in the design.
Most of the burden is on Bartosz.
Andrei
