On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 07:26:25PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > What is a notification system? Well, what it is is a simple system > that posts an event when a watched resource is changed. We're going > to watch modification, deletion, addition, and destruction. > > How does it work? Simple. When a watched resource does what we're > watching for (it changes, an entry is deleted, an entry is added, a > thing is destroyed) we post an event to the event queue. When that > event is processed, whatever notification routines were registered > are run. Very simple. > > Why? > > Because there's all sorts of stuff we need to watch for performance > reasons.
My first thought on reading this was it would be rather useful for debugger watch-expressions. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Hold on while I slip into something a little more naked.
