>>>>> "DS" == Dave Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DS> There have been multiple mentions of the fact that we intend to have safe
DS> signals in Perl 6. I was wondering if it will also be possible to have
DS> more than one alarm() set at a time, or some other mechanism for having
DS> multiple pending signals.
if we have a proper core event loop as dan and i want, multiple timers
will be part of that. and that will mean we can have timed out
operations without the mess of eval/die (or whatever 6 will have for
that).
similarly, proper safe signals will store all pending signals and
deliver each one.
a core event loop will support all of those features. delivery methods
can be chosen by the coder, either polling in the op code loop or
running a proper event loop with no polling (which will be faster).
uri
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