Re: [Vala] Questions on async functions

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <mickey vanille-media de>]

> We should try to limit the amount of GLib specific syntactic sugar.

True, especially in the light of alternative backends, such as the
forthcoming Dova.

> 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.

Yes. In cornucopia/fsogsmd (http://git.freesmartphone.org), I stick
callbacks into a processing queue that gets drained whenever the modem
has time to process the next command. Eventually the result comes in,
then the callback gets called.

:M: