Rob Kinyon wrote: >On 5/15/06, Audrey Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Rob Kinyon wrote: >> >> >>>I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be very feasible to do this natively in >>>P5. But, would it be possible to do it natively in P6? As in, >>>supported within the interpreter vs. through some sort of overloading. >>> >>> >>Look at "is atomic" in S17draft, and Software Transaction Memory in general? >> >> > >Would there be a way for me to say "Yes, I understand that Perl may >not generically understand how to revert this outside resource, such >as a database, but I do." and do a catch-type block for the revert? > >
There was discussion about this on one of the dbi2 lists at some point. I think a minimal API was even fleshed out - but it probably died there and would love someone to pick it up. Sam.
