From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2006-02-22T07:51:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] lazy.rb 0.9.5 -- transparent futures!

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On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 04:01 +0900, Daniel Nugent wrote:
> In that case, what I want (I'm so damn greedy :D) is to be able to
> raise the exception immediately (in a case where you damned well know
> that you're going to need the value and would prefer to fail early)
> and I see that that's trivial to implement (just have a conditional
> toss the exception up in the thread if some @raise_immediately flag is
> set to true).

> There's one other thing I was wondering about: What's the prudency of
> adding a method to Future to allow the Future to go back to sleep
> (release the lock, pass the thread)?  In this case, I'm considering
> waiting for a resource that some other future/thread might be using,
> or waiting for a port to get some data. (mostly implementation details
> for that library I mentioned, I'll deal with them, but I'm curious if
> there's any issue I'm forgetting).

Hmm.  Could you give me some examples of the behavior you have in mind?

-mental

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