Re: A common event loop

[email protected] (Chaim Frenkel) 23 Sep 2000 23:34:43 -0400
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.flow
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>>>>> "DLN" == David L Nicol <[email protected]> writes:

DLN> This too is something that would be very easy to do in
DLN> everything-is-an-exception world.  All events throw "EVENT-whatever"
DLN> exceptions, and there you are.

That is a nasty and expensive way of doing something 'simple'.

And I can't imagine how this would work. Any statement could be interupted
with an exception, but there is no mechanism to restart.

This is just plain wrong.

<chaim>
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