I'm coming from Tcl-world ...

[Andreas Leitgeb]

Martin v. Loewis <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> That kind of processing assumes that your language runtime owns a
> mainloop. While this is a compromise that Tcl was willing to make, I
> still think that must be left out of the programming language, and 
> should be part of libraries.
It has the big advantage, though, that it makes it easier for new 
modules to fit into a central mainloop, than into decentral 
mainloops of other modules.
e.g.  GUI and asyncore

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