On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 16:22 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > Am Wednesday 17 September 2008 00:34:08 schrieb Jürg Billeter: > > I like the idea of adding language support for asynchronous method > > calls, I was thinking of implementing this for some months but it wasn't > > on the top of my todo list. > > > > I haven't tried implementing this, but I think that the Vala code could > > be made even simpler and the labels should not be necessary. My idea is > > to introduce a modifier/attribute to mark methods as async capable. If > > you call an async method using the `yield' keyword, it will > > automatically introduce a continuation point there, i.e., add a callback > > and return in C. The async method call will not accept any delegate or > > lambda, it will just implicitly use the rest of the method body. > > That sounds amazing. Could we use this to have the missing support for async. > dbus server support or is that only useful for the client?
Yes, async D-Bus server support will be built on top of this scheme. I'm planning to start working on this soon. Jürg _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list Vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
