From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2007-01-01T10:23:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Status of Cardinal (was Re: Proposal to create a new mailing list)

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On 12/31/06, Brian Mitchell <binary42@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  The language has some great ideas to steal. Not all of them are
> original to Io but some are implemented in really nice ways. One of my
> favorites has been transparent futures. These are a little hard to
> implement in Ruby w/o Object#become of some form. Proxies work well
> but give a large performance hit and rare gotchas (Ruby takes quite a
> few shortcuts that makes this break in odd places).
>
> It would be awesome to see some of this implemented as first class
> concurrency mechanisms. I had a good portion of Ruby's object model
> mirrored in Io to experiment with the combination. The project was
> dropped after I had difficulties with some of less defined areas,
> parsing ruby code, and Io's general instablility (much better these
> days, but still very visible).
>
> Brian.
>
>
I love transparent futures! They also appear in Alice. Have you looked at
it? Too heavyweight for real programming (it's an ML derivative) but some
really sweet ideas.

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