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From:  Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
Subject:  Re: Async function calls
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:23:00 -0000
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Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:44:46AM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>> Maybe, somebody have bright ideas?
> 
> Could we pick out the inferior function calls and evaluate them first,
> with continuations?  Except that could change order of evaluation;
> we'd have to read the values of variables at the same time.

Will it help? Say, we do:

        print foo()

then to do it async way, we have to do the function call, and then
'print' should get back to action and print the value. Right now,
print_command has no continuations, so we'll have to add it.
And likewise, it seems that every command that can call a function
will have to be converted to use continuation.

- Volodya