[HN Gopher] Towards Oberon+ Concurrency
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       Towards Oberon+ Concurrency
        
       Author : Rochus
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2023-12-25 17:35 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (oberon-lang.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (oberon-lang.github.io)
        
       | Rochus wrote:
       | Maybe you find it easier to read in this format:
       | https://github.com/oberon-lang/oberon-lang.github.io/blob/ma...
        
       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | zK: it's (irregularly, but what in english isn't?) "forty", not
       | "fourty"
       | 
       | More importantly, I haven't (yet) read closely enough to tell if
       | you only have blocking constructs in at the moment, but if so you
       | probably want to be able to block on an (unordered) collection of
       | channels. I don't think it matters much if this operation
       | unblocks and performs a channel action or just unblocks when a
       | channel action becomes possible, but it does matter that one
       | should be able to block on a mix of both reads and writes in the
       | same group.
        
         | Rochus wrote:
         | Currently there is either SEND or RECEIVE select, not a mixed
         | one. What's the use case you have in mind for a mixed
         | send/receive select?
        
       | dang wrote:
       | This is fine as a HN submission but not as a Show HN - see
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. I've taken "Show HN"
       | out of the title now.
       | 
       | Also, every HN submission is implicitly a request for comments,
       | so I took that bit out of the title too. (Submitted title was
       | "Show HN: Towards Oberon+ concurrency; request for comments")
        
         | Rochus wrote:
         | The guidelines allow a "chapter of a book". This post is a
         | paper with the description of a concurrency proposal for the
         | Oberon+ programming language, and I would like to receive
         | comments specifically on the proposal (not just any comment or
         | discussion; yet another reason why Show HN fits). Can you
         | please reconsider your decision?
        
           | pvg wrote:
           | Books can be Show HNs, chapter of a book is there so authors
           | can show a substantial part of a book they are selling. Most
           | other things, including papers fall under 'other reading
           | material' which falls outside Show HN.
        
           | dang wrote:
           | pvg's answer is correct, but to add a couple things: (1) it's
           | not possible to focus discussion in a particular direction no
           | matter what the title says; commenters will just post
           | whatever they feel like saying. However, (2) for a case like
           | this, it's certainly legit to add a comment of your own to
           | the thread, giving the background to this piece, explaining
           | what's different about it, and saying what feedback you're
           | hoping for. If anything can work, that will.
        
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