On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:28:51PM -0800, Allison Randal wrote: : Oh, the Io language, which I've been interested in lately, also makes : use of the concept of "futures" for concurrency. It's got a degree of : appeal to it.
Perl 6's feeds (lazy lists) can also be viewed as a form of futures, insofar as they tell the compiler that you don't care much about the ordering of side effects between the producer and the consumer. They just set up the return pipeline without necessarily demanding a return value immediately. Larry
