From: MikkelFJ <mikkelj-anti-spam@...1.dknet.dk>
Date: 2001-12-04T08:41:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27385] Re: thoughts for future Ruby with bytecode VM


"Phil Tomson" <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> wrote in message
news:tDRO7.36967$Lc.1306859@sjcpnn01.usenetserver.com...
> from the brainstorm department....
>
> I'm working on a task distribution system which distributes runnable
> objects (objects which respond to a 'run' method) to various clients.  One
> thing I've had to do was define a 'remote_require' method on the clients
> so that I can send new runnable class definitions to clients so that they
> are 'aware' of new classes which the user might create (basically, I
> 'stringify' the rb file which defines the class, send the string to the
> client and the client does an Object.class_eval(str) )

One of the (theoretic?) features of Stackless Python continuations is that
you can suspend a point of execution and resume it somewhere else.

MikkelFJ