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Re: tselect


In case you forgot, there is work on CPS-based GUIs that can be found
at

http://cs.nyu.edu/phd_students/fuchs/index.html

> 
> 
> >You know, I just got the urge to convert Guile into continuation-
> >passing-style.  It's OK if I commit it to night, isn't it?  8-)
> 
> *panic*
> 
> :)
> 
> I think some idea along these lines is a fine idea; it gets us a lot
> of the functionality you want from threads, without obliging us to
> deal with full preemption.  It allows the nice window-and-prompt style
> of interaction that wish has.  I think this would be easier with a
> reorganized port implementation, but again, if we don't have to wait
> for that, so much the better.
> 


-- 
Aleksandar Bakic, Comp.Sci. graduate student at Michigan State University
e-mail: bakicale@cps.msu.edu