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Title: RE: Co-Routines??

end of May was the latest estimate i believe.

Regards,
Jim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Ries [mailto:eries@there.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 11:58 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: RE: Co-Routines??
>
>
> Hello
>
> I'm new to the list, but I'm very excited to learn about forthcoming
> coroutine support. I'm working on a time-sensitive project,
> and was about to
> hack open the Lua sources to build in some thread-like
> support, that sounds
> almost exactly like what coroutines provides. Is there any
> word on when a
> beta of 4.1 will be available? If there is a working version
> in development
> now, I'd like to volunteer to help out in any way I can:
> testing, coding,
> documentation - you name it. I'd just like to get working
> with coroutines
> ASAP!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br
> > [mailto:owner-lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br]On Behalf Of Luiz Henrique de
> > Figueiredo
> > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 8:06 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject: Re: Co-Routines??
> >
> >
> > >Hello, Im new to lua (and mostly all scripting languages).
>  I've been
> > >hearing lots of talk about coroutines lately and was wondering
> > what they are
> > >all about. I know that lua 4.0 does not support them.  What do
> > these things
> > >do?  are they the same as functions?  do we define these
> in lua or the c
> > >language?  They have something to do with multi-tasking right?
> >
> > On Dec 26, 2000, I posteda a brief explanation of coroutines.
> > Get the full archive and search for
> >     Message-Id: <200012261235.KAA28165@ibere.tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
> > --lhf
> >
>