Re: A common event loop

2000-09-23 Thread Chaim Frenkel
> "DLN" == David L Nicol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DLN> This too is something that would be very easy to do in DLN> everything-is-an-exception world. All events throw "EVENT-whatever" DLN> exceptions, and there you are. That is a nasty and expensive way of doing something 'simple'. And I

rfc47 (was Re: A common event loop)

2000-09-19 Thread Uri Guttman
> "DLN" == David L Nicol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DLN> This too is something that would be very easy to do in DLN> everything-is-an-exception world. All events throw "EVENT-whatever" DLN> exceptions, and there you are. and how do you dispatch on those events? an event loop should a

Re: A common event loop

2000-09-19 Thread David L. Nicol
This too is something that would be very easy to do in everything-is-an-exception world. All events throw "EVENT-whatever" exceptions, and there you are. -- David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A common event loop

2000-09-19 Thread Peter Scott
ll win. > >So the question I put to you all is, would it make sense for Perl to >have a common event loop from which all other modules can then draw, >thus avoiding the current state of conflict? Absolutely. The architecture of Tk applications will change considerably, for the better. -

Re: A common event loop

2000-09-19 Thread Uri Guttman
C and POE) the one who's main loop MGS> starts up first will win. MGS> So the question I put to you all is, would it make sense for Perl to MGS> have a common event loop from which all other modules can then draw, MGS> thus avoiding the current state of conflict? Or will a stab

A common event loop

2000-09-19 Thread Michael G Schwern
Perl to have a common event loop from which all other modules can then draw, thus avoiding the current state of conflict? Or will a stable threading implementation provide the equivalent? PS This seemed like the right place to post this, other than perl6-language which is stretched as