Maybe in a while (lets see if my change works out). Robby
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Matthias Felleisen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is it appropriate then to deprecate the library and > to move the code eventually into racket/control-examples? > > > > On Oct 31, 2012, at 10:08 AM, Robby Findler wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Matthias Felleisen >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> At some point someone (Asumu?) mentioned that this is the only >>> use of coroutine in our code base. Is this correct? >> >> grep suggests that there are no more (none on planet either). >> >> FWIW, this is still "morally" a coroutine in the sense that it starts >> some work and pauses in the middle of the work, either resuming the >> work later or aborting the work (depending on what happened during the >> pause). And it is cooperative, pausing the work only all spots where >> it is safe to do so. >> >> The reason I went away from the racket/engine library is that I wanted >> to have the work happen on a specific thread (the eventspace handler >> thread for the drracket eventspace) and racket/engine doesn't do that. >> I considered using continuations but the work is in a simple tail >> recursive loop (well, except for a for-each outside that) so I just >> rewrote it directly. >> >> Robby > _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
