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[REBOL] Re: Function "LAUNCH" - Usage questions

From: maarten:koopmans:surfnet:nl at: 12-Jun-2002 12:57

And you can get rugby at www.rebolforces.com/~erebol --maarten Gabriele Santilli wrote:
> Hi Alessandro, > > On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, 9:13:22 AM, you wrote: > > rei> how do you think you can implement multitasking (even cooperative, but > rei> enough efficient, with an enough fast task-switching) in Rebol Core? > rei> Using WAIT instruction? And in View that the documentation suggest NOT > rei> TO USE wait command? > > I think you got this wrong here. :) WAIT is the basis of /View's > event system, since events are coming from the event:// port. What > you cannot do, is call WAIT *inside* WAIT (i.e. inside an event > handler, etc.). > > If you want an example of cooperative multitasking look at Rugby. > > Regards, > Gabriele. >
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