On Thu, 10 May 2001, Uri Guttman wrote:
> >>>>> "DS" == Dave Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> DS> There have been multiple mentions of the fact that we intend to have safe
> DS> signals in Perl 6. I was wondering if it will also be possible to have
> DS> more than one alarm() set at a time, or some other mechanism for having
> DS> multiple pending signals.
>
> if we have a proper core event loop as dan and i want, multiple timers
> will be part of that. and that will mean we can have timed out
> operations without the mess of eval/die (or whatever 6 will have for
> that).
Cool.
>
> similarly, proper safe signals will store all pending signals and
> deliver each one.
Cooler.
> a core event loop will support all of those features. delivery methods
> can be chosen by the coder, either polling in the op code loop or
> running a proper event loop with no polling (which will be faster).
Completely frozen. (That's a compliment, in this context. :>)
Dave
