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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Threads across programming languages
Date: Sat, 4 May 2024 02:35:40 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 2 May 2024 13:22:39 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:

> Am 02.05.2024 um 08:48 schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro:
>>
>> The normal, non-comedy way of handling this is to have the task await
>> something variously called a “future” or “promise”: when that object is
>> marked as completed, then the task is automatically woken again to
>> fulfil its purpose.
> 
> The problem with a future and a promise is that in most languages you
> can't wait for multiple futures at once to have out of order completion.

Of course you can. Any decent event-loop framework will provide this 
capability. Python’s asyncio does. I use it all the time.