Re: [Vala] Implicit lamdas/closures

["Christian Hergert" <christian hergert gmail com>]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch> wrote:

On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 22:42 +0000, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> It'll be a couple of weeks at least before I can look at it.
>
> Jürg, are you intending to allow the callbacks to pass in additional variables?

The plan is to allow access to all local variables using closures.

> Are you planning to base it around any particular async framework?

The generated C code uses GAsyncReadyCallback and GAsyncResult from
GLib/GIO.

> Will callbacks be able to continue a loop where it left off?

Yes, this will be possible. It will also be possible to surround async
calls with a try/catch block.

Jürg

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It would be useful if delegates could through exceptions here too.  Particularly when you do async calls that take a delegate.

-- Christian