Re: Calling handlers manually

I think I agree with you.  I'll just implement this special case  
without handlers.

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On Dec 22, 2005, at Thu, Dec 22, 2005 10:30 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:18:01 -0700, "Conan C. Albrecht"
> <conan-RXmsyT/Szrj2fBVCVOL8/[email protected]> said:
>> So, the question is now, is there a way to design these handlers so
>> they *can* be called from a direct link?
>
> Anything may be possible, but IMO this is one of the more difficult
> anythings.
>
> The MD5ing, for instance, is a way of generating unique tag ids  
> with two
> important properties:
>
> - it's low-overhead (happens only at compile time; compiled spyces are
> then cached until the source changes)
> - it doesn't depend on things being processed in any particular  
> order --
> important for it to work in any non-single-process Spyce deployment
>
> (We need unique IDs in the first place because you could conceivably
> have multiple instances of the same tags, with different handlers.   
> The
> "chatbox" demo illustrates this in a somewhat contrived fashion.)
>
> -Jonathan
> -- 
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>