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Re: Remove non-system asyncs?
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Neil Jerram |
Subject: |
Re: Remove non-system asyncs? |
Date: |
24 Mar 2001 09:41:32 +0000 |
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>>>>> "Dirk" == Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden> writes:
Dirk> On 23 Mar 2001, Neil Jerram wrote:
>> On a superficially related point... I think we should remove
>> the non-system async code from Guile core, provide a deprecated
>> Scheme emulation of them using hooks, and eventually remove the
>> emulation as well.
>>
>> As far as I could work out, non-system asyncs provide nothing
>> that is not provided better by hooks. Or am I missing
>> something?
Dirk> I don't know if I understand you correctly, but I'd like to
Dirk> mention the after-gc-hook here, which is run by using an
Dirk> async. It could be that this one is easily replacable, but
Dirk> this needs to be verified.
The after-gc-hook mechanism uses a _system_ async. I am suggesting the
removal of non-system asyncs.
Regards,
Neil