Re: Tweaking junctions

2010-10-22 Thread Dave Whipp
Damian Conway wrote: I've been thinking about junctions, and I believe we may need a small tweak to (at least) the jargon in one part of the specification. When this issue has been raised in the past, the response has been that junctions are not really intended to be useful outside of the

Re: threads?

2010-10-22 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Darren Duncan dar...@darrenduncan.netwrote: Aaron Sherman wrote: Things that typically precipitate threading in an application: - Blocking IO - Event management (often as a crutch to avoid asynchronous code) - Legitimately parallelizable, intense

Re: Tweaking junctions

2010-10-22 Thread Damian Conway
Dave Whipp wrote: When this issue has been raised in the past, the response has been that junctions are not really intended to be useful outside of the narrow purpose for which they were introduced. Hmm. There are intentions, and then there are intentions. I know what I intended when I