On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@ccs.neu.edu> > wrote: >> Not a bug or crash, but it would be nice if a `place' was an event, in >> the sense of `evt?'. Come to think of it, this would be good for >> `future' as well. > > FWIW, this will probably never happen for futures, due to future-safe > issues. Using events in a future is currently far far far from being > future safe.
I wasn't thinking of using events in futures -- that does sound like a ton of work. I just meant that (sync (future (lambda () ...))) should be the same as (touch (future (lambda () ...))) or is that hard for future-safety reasons as well? -- sam th sa...@ccs.neu.edu _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
