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Re: User interaction from multiple threads
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John Shahid |
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Re: User interaction from multiple threads |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 22:34:02 -0400 |
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mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50 |
Phil Sainty <address@hidden> writes:
> On 30/08/18 05:36, John Shahid wrote:
>> The child thread can request the main thread to display a prompt and
>> return the value that the user entered.
>
> The notion of user interaction all happening on the main thread was
> proposed earlier, and it was pointed out that it's very difficult to
> do that, because the user interaction may involve arbitrary data which
> is local to the originating thread.
I thought closures would solve such a problem by encapsulating the
context. I imagine the main thread receiving forms from other threads
evaluating them and returning the results back to the thread which
becomes the value of the `(on-main-thread ...)`. What did I miss ?
Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Gemini Lasswell, 2018/08/19
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Phil Sainty, 2018/08/19
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Gemini Lasswell, 2018/08/20
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/08/20
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, John Shahid, 2018/08/29
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Phil Sainty, 2018/08/29
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads,
John Shahid <=
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/08/30
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, John Shahid, 2018/08/30
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/08/30
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, John Shahid, 2018/08/30
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/08/31
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Gemini Lasswell, 2018/08/31
Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/08/20