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Subject: User-defined events?
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 21:30:36 -0700
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Hello,

I've got a question concerning events.=20
As I read from previous discussions, an event is a message to the Parrot =
Interpreter saying something has happened: I/O jobs were finished, a =
timer went off, etc. These things are from 'outside' the system, that is =
something outside the interpreter gives a signal (such as a disk drive =
that generates an interrupt, indicating it finished disk IO). Except for =
the timer, I think, the timer will be some kind of built-in thing =
(right?).
(Ok, just a short explicit summary to check this)

Is it true that there will be operations for generating an event? So, =
unlike interrupt signals, these events are generated 'inside' the =
system. So, will there be an op like "postevent" or something?
How will this be done?=20

Klaas-Jan


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