[e-lang] Proposal: Remove parameters from __whenMoreResolved/__whenBroken reactors

[Kevin Reid]

On Jul 16, 2005, at 6:06, Mark Miller wrote:

> There were several related changes we provisionally agreed to here.  
> All involved removing the reactor argument from some registration  
> operation. The registration operations in question are:
>
> __whenMoreResolved/1
> __whenBroken/1
> Ref#whenResolved/2
> Ref#whenResolvedOnly/2
> Ref#whenBroken/2
> Ref#whenBrokenOnly/2
>
> Advance warning: I no longer think we should make any of these  
> changes. Sorry for the confusion and wasted effort.
>
> Having attempted to implement these changes [1], I ran into a  
> problem in DelayedRedirector, which I'll be documenting. I believe  
> this problem is fatal for __whenMoreResolved/1.
> ...
> Explanations of all this coming soon.

I haven't noticed an explanation being posted, and I have not  
stumbled across the reason myself. Could you write it or point to  
where it was posted?

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Kevin Reid                            <http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/>