From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-02-20T07:06:51+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] lazy.rb 0.9.5 -- transparent futures!

On Feb 18, 2006, at 7:07 PM, MenTaLguY wrote:

> = Futures
>
> Futures are blocks of code that are evaluated immediately, but in a
> background thread.
>
>  x = future { 3 + 5 }
>
>  p x # => #<Lazy::Future computation=#<Proc:...>>
>
>  # You could do other stuff here while
>  # the computation ran in the background
>
>  # blocks until the background thread completes
>  p x * 3 # => 24
>
>  p x # => 8
>
> Again, silly for 3 + 5 perhaps, but I'm sure you can see how this  
> might
> come in handy for more involved computations.

Wow, that is just super studly!

> == What happened to lazy streams from 0.2?
>
> I ditched the lazy streams API for now.  It just wasn't working out.

Can you expand on what you mean by this?  I'm working on a huge  
article about infinite streams for my blog and lazy.rb 0.2 was a big  
inspiration to me.

James Edward Gray II