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Re: [setup PATCH] next_dialog micropatch (2)


On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 02:13, Max Bowsher wrote:

> If we do add a class, it should probably be a thread class from which all of
> our threaded tasks can derive. Regardless, I don't see that any further
> cleanup will reverse these changes. I can see how it may involve changing
> the same lines to a third form, but that is not a reversal.

Are you thinking of the (IIR the name C) the 'completion object'
pattern? That would work too.

> In any case, this is a tiny patch, and even *if* (partial) reversal is
> required, to do so will be trivial. We can benefit *now* from this cleanup,
> whereas classes may be months in the future.
> 
> Requesting to commit,

Denying. A trivial class will take you less time to create than this
series of email has. I'm not asking for the full McCoy, just a step in
the right direction rather than trading one problem for another.

Rob

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