On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 08:10, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
Kevin Turner
writes: Someone, either Glyph or Tommi, mentioned that they wanted cursors a while back. "What's that," I asked; then thought "hm. I could do that." But I didn't. Only, now I did. I think.
The idea was to replace the web.widget Deferreds bookkeeping with such a construct. Currently, all widgets to be output know their position in the list, and when a Deferred returns [deferred2, "foo", deferred3], and later deferred2 return ["bar", "baz"], deferred3's index is wrong.
If instead of indexes, the Deferreds had cursors, that changed as the list modified, they'd survive.
Of course, an even bigger rewrite of web.widgets and Deferred processing may be wanted.
Sadly, I have no time to hack on that..
That's what I'm working on right now (see my last 3 rants on the list). I could use a bit of advice, I think, though. Maybe I'll catch you on IRC soon. So far I've refactored all normal non-deferred stuff, and I'm taking a fresh look at implementing Deferreds in widgets. Right now I'm *trying* to figure out a clever way to allow deferreds to not need to worry about position -- but I'm just now starting to figure something out. I'll talk to you some time. -- <spiv> NeuroMorphus: That's not really meaningful, though. <NeuroMorphus> spiv: it's not a matter of meaning, it's an assignment -- Chris Armstrong <<< radix@twistedmatrix.com >>> http://twistedmatrix.com/users/carmstro.twistd/