Re: [Vala] Implicit lamdas/closures

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 16:22 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Am Wednesday 17 September 2008 00:34:08 schrieb Jürg Billeter:
> > I like the idea of adding language support for asynchronous method
> > calls, I was thinking of implementing this for some months but it wasn't
> > on the top of my todo list.
> >
> > I haven't tried implementing this, but I think that the Vala code could
> > be made even simpler and the labels should not be necessary. My idea is
> > to introduce a modifier/attribute to mark methods as async capable. If
> > you call an async method using the `yield' keyword, it will
> > automatically introduce a continuation point there, i.e., add a callback
> > and return in C. The async method call will not accept any delegate or
> > lambda, it will just implicitly use the rest of the method body.
>
> That sounds amazing. Could we use this to have the missing support for async. 
> dbus server support or is that only useful for the client?

Yes, async D-Bus server support will be built on top of this scheme. I'm
planning to start working on this soon.

Jürg