Ka-Ping Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Client-side web scripting tends to have a callback/continuation-ish
> concurrency style because it has to deal with network transactions
> (which can stall for long periods of time) in a user interface that
> is expected to stay always responsive. The Fir
On Jul 7, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 7/7/06, Ka-Ping Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I've been doing a bunch of Firefox extension programming in
>> Javascript
>> and suddenly a few of the recent topics here came together in my head
>> in a silent kapow of thoughts. This i
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 7/7/06, Ka-Ping Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've been doing a bunch of Firefox extension programming in Javascript
> > and suddenly a few of the recent topics here came together in my head
> > in a silent kapow of thoughts. This is kind of a
On 7/7/06, Ka-Ping Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been doing a bunch of Firefox extension programming in Javascript
> and suddenly a few of the recent topics here came together in my head
> in a silent kapow of thoughts. This is kind of a side note to the
> security discussion, but they're
At 07:04 PM 7/6/2006 -0500, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
>On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> > As much as I'd love to have the nested scope feature, I think it's only
> > right to point out that the above can be rewritten as something like this
> > in Python 2.5:
> >
> > def spam():
> >
On Jul 6, 2006, at 5:04 PM, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>> As much as I'd love to have the nested scope feature, I think it's
>> only
>> right to point out that the above can be rewritten as something
>> like this
>> in Python 2.5:
>>
>> def spam():
>>
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> As much as I'd love to have the nested scope feature, I think it's only
> right to point out that the above can be rewritten as something like this
> in Python 2.5:
>
> def spam():
> local_A = do_work()
> result_1 = yield do_network
At 05:17 PM 7/6/2006 -0500, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Brett Cannon wrote:
> > I have been working on a design doc for restricted execution of Python
> > as part of my dissertation for getting Python into Firefox to replace
> > JavaScript on the web.
>
>I've been doing a bunch of Fire
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Brett Cannon wrote:
> I have been working on a design doc for restricted execution of Python
> as part of my dissertation for getting Python into Firefox to replace
> JavaScript on the web.
I've been doing a bunch of Firefox extension programming in Javascript
and suddenly a f
