Re: Can stop interrupt initialize()

2006-01-30 Thread Shawn Bowers
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Kevin Ruland wrote: Bertram, Things like static type checking may be optional (to the workflow) in the sense that one could still execute a workflow without having done the static type checking step or perhaps the workflow could be executed if static type checking

Re: Can stop interrupt initialize()

2006-01-30 Thread Shawn Bowers
No problem ... I thought you were referring to structural types -- int, string, array of double, etc. I agree with Bertram that structural type checking would be very useful to have has a button akin to a staging button, a run button, a stop button, and so on. The semantic type stuff is not

Re: Can stop interrupt initialize()

2006-01-30 Thread Edward A. Lee
At 08:41 AM 1/30/2006 -0600, Kevin Ruland wrote: Also, if some actor somewhere does do something extremely time consuming in it's initialize method, there is currently no pleasant way to interrupt it. The user can click on the stop button, and it does appear to have some effect -- that is,

Re: Can stop interrupt initialize()

2006-01-30 Thread Kevin Ruland
Edward A. Lee wrote: At 08:41 AM 1/30/2006 -0600, Kevin Ruland wrote: Also, if some actor somewhere does do something extremely time consuming in it's initialize method, there is currently no pleasant way to interrupt it. The user can click on the stop button, and it does appear to have some