Re: [Vala] Questions on async functions

[Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky jiri gmail com>]

Sam Wilson píše v St 03. 02. 2010 v 10:01 -0500:
> > > Q2.
> > > Any hope of getting the following replaced
> > > with a better syntax? :-)
> > >
> > >    Idle.add(async_function.callback);
> > >    yield;
> > >
> > > Why not simply:
> > >
> > >    yield;
> > >
> > > ?
> >
> > Because 'yield' just stops the method until the callback resumes it. It
> > does nothing else. You can for example wait for a signal this way.
> > Resuming in an idle callback is just one of the possibilities.
>
> Why not
>
> yield Idle;
>
> or even
>
> yield until Idle;
>                                         

We should try to limit the amount of GLib specific syntactic sugar. Not
add new and totally illogical constructs, just because we are lazy to
type a single extra line, which is nowhere near being a single
possibility here. I don't think it's even the most useful one.

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