Re: RFC 27 (v1) Coroutines for Perl

[Nathan Wiger]

> I like this, but I'd like to see this, inter-thread queues, and events all
> use the same communication method. Overload filehandles to pass events
> around instead, so:
> 
>    my $thing = <$handle>;
> 
> could read a record from a file, or get an event from the event queue, or
> receive some data from another thread. (With perhaps <$foo> in an lvalue
> context being the same as sending a message down the filehandle to
> whatever's on the other end)

I have my way with the new open(), this'll happen. See RFC 14. Version 2
(which explores this in detail) should be up this afternoon.

-Nate