Re: (Caja-CapTP) Re: Mutual introduction & a species of whale

Tyler Close <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.e.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Kevin Reid<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 1, 2009, at 20:10, Tyler Close wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Kevin Reid<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I am currently not using Tyler's JS ref_send because its interface to
>>> JavaScript appears to be incompatible with the sort CapTP wants (with
>>> regard to object types and distinctions and so on).
>>
>> I'm surprised by that. Can you give me more details?
>
> The first thing I noticed (from the implementation of 'near') is that
> any function is considered a promise. In a CapTP-style system, any
> arbitrary unknown object should be treated as a Selfish object. I
> could declare that 'functions are not objects', but that ...just
> doesn't feel right, in this context.

Anything else?

I can put a marker on the promise functions if that's all you need.

--Tyler

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