On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <s...@cs.brown.edu> wrote: > I wonder if he's read the structure of JavaScript programs, which -- > because of the cooperative multi-tasking structure of JavaScript -- > have to return control to the event loop (ie, "terminate") whenever > they make an Ajax request, leaving *another procedure* to pick up the > response if and when it arrives. What a nifty pattern -- I really > wish it had a name! Oh wait, I guess these days it's called "Ajax" -- > which makes it all good.
These days it's called "I need TaskJS, stat!". http://dherman.github.com/taskjs/ -- sam th sa...@ccs.neu.edu _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
