Guido van Rossum wrote: > Let me just add that Andy is wasting his time. Python 3000 won't have > continuations.
Huh? Futures are very different from continuations. I still have a hard time understanding continuations (and am no fan of them), but futures seem to be a rather simple abstraction to comprehend. It just seems like clean syntax to do general asynchronous stuff. The links I posted earlier: http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/alice/manual/futures.html http://kasparov.skife.org/blog-live/src/futures.writeback http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/Future.html discuss the abstraction in greater depth. Note that I'm not even lobbying to see futures in Py3K, just that maybe checking them out may inspire some ideas regarding related mechanisms in Python. It's just something I came across that I thought might be of interest. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
