Re: ice-9 async-queue

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed 08 Feb 2012 14:44, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> What do you think of adding a ‘cancel’ primitive to futures?
>
> It sounds good, but tricky to implement.  I'm also not sure it's exactly
> the right interface -- for example, Java seems to have switched entirely
> away from the "cancel" API to the "interrupt" API.  But you would know
> more about that than I would.  Would you use cancel-thread or would you
> have the thread raise an exception via an async, or what?

I don’t know.

Actually, what kind of computation would the web server start that could
possibly need to be canceled?  (Pure computation, that is.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.