On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Eric Iverson <[email protected]> wrote: > There is no sdasync on platforms other than windows. The facility > could be constructed and is a medium to small project. But given that > select works, I don't think it is worth the effort. With select you > can do quite a bit. That is, a J task can wait on select for events on > any number of sockets and process them as desired. One of the sockets > that task waits on could be from your user GUI interface task.
I certainly agree that it is not worth your effort. However, some development styles work better with the sdasync mechanism than with the select mechanism. If I might be oversimplistic, I'd point out that sdasync can be concise in some contexts. Another perspective here is that this kind of project can serve as training for a developer wishing to become comfortable with the J implementation. Finally, I should also note that there's other models for interaction which can serve this same space. (trigger/dependencies, and functional reactive programming.) Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
