[REBOL] Re: Commercial-quality REBOL programmers needed
From: carl:cybercraft at: 17-Aug-2002 17:30
On 17-Aug-02, [reffy--ulrich--net] wrote:
>> Dick wrote:
>>> Does the evaluation of the expression: a + b
>> Happen synchronously, or asynchronously
>> Are the values of 'a' and 'b' currently exclusive to the process
>> that can
>> perform the '+' operation or are they in 'shared' mode ?
>> Rebol is single threaded. Your question is pretty much meaningless.
>> Andrew Martin
> For a moment lets assume there are 4 Rebol processes running on
> different machines. On my process/machine4 I want to add the value
> of a/process/machine1 and b/process/machine2 , and I want the
> operation to occur on process/machine3, with the result coming back
> to me on process/machine4.
> Can one refer to the value of a variable on a different machine ?
Have a look at the docs for REBOL's TCP support. There's examples
there for clients and servers, (all tiny scripts), which should allow
you to do the above, if I've understood you right. See...
http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-13.html#sect14.
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Carl Read