From: Andrew Johnson <ajohnson@...>
Date: 2006-02-21T17:33:30+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] lazy.rb 0.9.5 -- transparent futures!

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:07:12 +0900, MenTaLguY <mental@rydia.net> wrote:
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> I'd like to announce a new version of lazy.rb -- this one offering
> thread safety and transparent futures!
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> Here's the web site, complete with gem and tarball downloads, plus a bit
> of documentation:
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>  http://moonbase.rydia.net/software/lazy.rb/
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> Bug reports would be very, very welcome.


When I toyed with a proof-of-concept of Io's asynchronous messages in Ruby

  http://www.siaris.net/index.cgi/Programming/LanguageBits/Ruby/Async.rdoc

Jim Weirich pointed out that methods later added to Object or Kernel will
no longer be "missing" in the Async (or Future) class. One work around is
to trap "method_added" up the chain, for example:

  http://www.siaris.net/cgi-bin/siwiki.pl?FeedBack/AsyncMessages

But then I discovered that methods added by including a module weren't
trapped by method_added -- so in the end, a KernellessObject (from evil.rb)
was needed (same link as above) as Async's parent to keep the proxy clean.

regards,
andrew

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