Eijiro Sumii wrote:
> From: "Alex Baretta" <alex@barettadeit.com>

> I rather want to avoid multi-threading if select could be easy enough,
> because the former is often too tricky due to the possibility of
> deadlocks and races.
> 
> 	Eijiro

Static determination of potential deadlocks in a message passing 
environment like that implemented in Event amounts to proving that a 
graph is cyclic.

Selecting amounts to manual threading: it gives you more control, but 
not necessarily any more safety.

Alex

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