[bug#44800] [PATCH v2 1/3] Add Avahi support.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

> On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 18:04, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> (I wanted to add an API in Guile-Avahi to “invert inversion of control”
>> so that one could escape callback hell but never got around to
>> completing it.)
>
> Out of curiosity, what do you mean by “invert inversion of control”?

Users of the Avahi client library are supposed to pass “callbacks”,
which leads to “inversion of control”: the library decides when you code
is called.  See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_of_control>.

Inverting it would mean providing a natural way for users to call the
library.

HTH!

Ludo’.