Indeed - we can make all the things on the list I made have a callback / without waiting form too.
In terms of wait itself - it is the HyperTalk way of doing 'async' - allowing you to write such code without the 'headache' of nested callbacks / closures and such - this is why it is important to retain and improve. It makes coding event driven things easier. The fact that C# has async, and JS is getting it (because node.js primarily) shows that it is an important pattern. One we've had for years, just in a restricted (recursive) form. Warmest Regards, Mark. Sent from my iPhone > On 31 Jul 2017, at 16:39, Mark Wieder via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> On 07/29/2017 09:23 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: >> >> P.S. One other possibility I've toyed with is doing LCS->BYTECODE, then >> BYTECODE->ASYNCIFIED_JAVASCRIPT. The latter would be particularly easy if >> targetting browsers which have already implemented the new async JavaScript >> features. Since it looks like the HTML5 engine will only become truly widely >> usable when we move to WASM, this might well be a much more maintainable, >> and relatively quicker option. > > I also want to point out (thanks for that long well-thought-out post) that > many of the use cases you list might be better served with callback functions > than with a cobbled-together 'wait' command. Javascript on its own doesn't > have a wait or sleep command, and while there are ways to simulate the > effect, they are problematic in a real-world environment where network timing > issues are out of control of the calling code. > > -- > Mark Wieder > ahsoftw...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
