Making async programming easier in emacs with macros

#1

Post by nicferrier » Fri, Sep 30, 2011, 2:05 PM UTC

Making async programming easier in emacs with macros
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Re: Making async programming easier in emacs with macros

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Post by gcv » Fri, Sep 30, 2011, 7:31 PM UTC

I wonder if future versions of Emacs will eventually support some kind of threading. Seems reasonable, considering that 24 is introducing real lexical scope. Just have to make sure that legacy dynamically-scoped code doesn't trip on the threads...

Re: Making async programming easier in emacs with macros

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Post by nicferrier » Fri, Sep 30, 2011, 7:41 PM UTC

gcv wrote: post #2

I wonder if future versions of Emacs will eventually support some kind of threading. Seems reasonable, considering that 24 is introducing real lexical scope. Just have to make sure that legacy dynamically-scoped code doesn't trip on the threads...

as previously discussed here, threads are coming to emacs. there is a long standing effort to introduce them, here's the branch:

http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/concurrency/files