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fauigerzigerk on Aug 21, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why threads vs events is a nonsensical question.

My ideal version would be something like

  parallel for(item in source)
    log(write(process(read(item))))

And let the compiler/runtime figure out how to do that. It could generate something similar to your code for instance.

dramaticus3 on Aug 21, 2011 [–]

ok, but now I have a generic logger that I can send all kind of messages to. I can use the source channel anywhere and pop a new data source into it etc. etc.

channels rule :)

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