[E-Lang] New Page: Partially Ordered Message Delivery

[Tyler Close]

Zooko wrote:
>  MarkM wrote:
> > At 04:29 AM Monday 3/5/01, Tyler Close wrote:
> >
> > >Rather than giving up on forking, to support web sites,
> I've come up
> > >with a different hack. If there are pending messages on
> an exported
> > >reference, and the reference is to a web site that does
> not support
> > >forking, then the forked reference is a smashed promise.
> > >
> > >This means that certain uses of a web site will always
> fail, but I am
> > >hoping that these uses will not be the common uses. So
> far, these new
> > >semantics do not break any of the code I have that
> interacts with web
> > >sites.
>
> What is it that these websites can't do?  They can't
> perform the archash ->
> retval conversion?

Forking a reference means giving the target object a new address.
Typical web sites don't let you do this. The object has one URL and
clients cannot change this.

Tyler