14 Jun
2012
14 Jun
'12
5:54 p.m.
Quoting "Simon Marlow"
Naming is obviously up for discussion too.
I feel that "Async" is a bit too generic and doesn't very precisely characterize this particular construct. How about "Future", as similar things are called in e.g. Alice http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/alice/manual/futures.html and Java http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/FutureTask.htm...? Lauri