Re: Implicit threading vs Imperative barriers

2009-06-04 Thread Jon Lang
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:57 AM, TSa wrote: > HaloO, > > Daniel Ruoso wrote: >> >> So the questions are: >> >>  * Are there any imperative barriers in Perl 6? > > I would think that at least every method call is a barrier. > An object's lifetime is a sequence of states and methods are either > retu

Re: Implicit threading vs Imperative barriers

2009-06-04 Thread TSa
HaloO, Daniel Ruoso wrote: So the questions are: * Are there any imperative barriers in Perl 6? I would think that at least every method call is a barrier. An object's lifetime is a sequence of states and methods are either returning information about the state or calculate a new state. The

Implicit threading vs Imperative barriers

2009-06-04 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Hi, Following my last reasoning on implicit threading and implicit event-based programming[1], I came to two interesting realizations... 1 - Every object is potentially lazy, not only lists. 2 - Lazy doesn't mean "wait until I need the data", but "don't stall me because of that data". That bas