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

Kevin Reid <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.e.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jul 8, 2009, at 20:15, Tyler Close wrote:
> 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.

I don't wish to take the time now to make a thorough study of whether  
they are compatible, especially as I already have an implementation of  
E-style refs; I will investigate the matter after I am no longer under  
the GSoC obligation to work on specific goals (August 17 --  
unfortunately).

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Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>
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