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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | Nathaniel Gray <n8gray@g...> |
| Subject: | Re: Select on channels (again) |
Tap... tap... Hello? Is this thing on? On 8/14/06, Nathaniel Gray <n8gray@gmail.com> wrote: > Like others before me, I'm hitting the frustrating limitation that > it's impossible to select on a channel. This limitation forces one to > reimplement buffered IO in many situations where using channels would > otherwise be easy and sensible. There has been discussion on this > list in the past about this limitation[1], and there have been two > requests filed in mantis for this feature[2,3], but the ocaml dev team > has been silent on the matter. Is this feature objectionable to the > dev team or is it just a case of "too much work, not enough time?" If > somebody was to submit a quality patch implementing the feature would > it be accepted? > > Cheers, > -n8 > > [1] <http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2005/03/8aae2e3c54cfb976fe52664ab1c84994.en.html> > [2] <http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=3075> > [3] <http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=3579> > > -- > >>>-- Nathaniel Gray -- Caltech Computer Science ------> > >>>-- Mojave Project -- http://mojave.cs.caltech.edu --> > -- >>>-- Nathaniel Gray -- Caltech Computer Science ------> >>>-- Mojave Project -- http://mojave.cs.caltech.edu -->