Re: SWIG question

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 28-Feb-07, at 10:02 PM, gary ng wrote:

> --- Rici Lake <lua@ricilake.net> wrote:
> > That assumes that you have a supervisor (event loop,
> > I guess) which handles the coroutines. You could
> > write this  in Lua,as well; I've put an example on
> > the wiki at
> > http://lua-users.org/wiki/CoroutinesAsEventHandlers
> I am struggling with this supervisor issue. For many
> cases, there is no need for copas(or at least the
> semantics don't fit). Yet sending/receiving through
> either a pipe or socket is a basic need for many
> applications.
>
> This would create a problem of, what supervisor to
> use(or how to coop the supervisors). Take this
> supervisor as an example, how can I make it work with
> copas(as copas handles io/socket related
> block/resume/yield which I don't want to re-invent).

Well, that supervisor (which hasn't been very heavily
tested yet :) ) is written to work as a coroutine
itself. So you should be able to use it as a delegate
driven by some other supervisor; at least, that was
the idea.