[REBOL] Re: P2P Q&A
From: d4marcus:dtek:chalmers:se at: 3-Oct-2001 20:59
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Maarten Koopmans wrote:
> Another example to prove my point: Ruby, a Japanese OO-like language with its
> own light-weight threading system, even on DOS! You could write a
> light-weight threading system if you'd really wanted too in Rebol as well.
> Now as for Rugby: you can call functions in other REBOL processes in Rugby
> using the /deferred or /http-deferred refinements. They return immediately
> with a ticket number for your request. You can use this number to check
> regularly if the result is there, and if so fetch it.
It would be cool though if Rebol had something like this builtin:
t: thread [file] [
list-dir
file: to-file ask "Give a filename to write the result to: "
]
result: do massively-timeconsuming-calculations
file: await t/file
write file result
Instead of letting the user wait for the result either before or after
typing the filename, it runs as the user types. I suppose this could be
implemented with ports as you suggest, but perhaps it would be slightly
more complicated than the above?
Marcus
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