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- From: denson@sdd.hp.com (Craig Denson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: RKM description of WaitPort()
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 17:01:28 -0800
- Organization: Maybe some day
- Lines: 12
- Message-ID: <1iijp8INN1fl@hpsdlss5.sdd.hp.com>
- References: <38385@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1993Jan7.201052.13703@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1993Jan7.230844.17921@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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- Keywords: WaitPort, MsgPorts
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- In article <1993Jan7.230844.17921@oracle.us.oracle.com> dnavas@oracle.uucp (David Navas) writes:
-
- >Yep, the "simple" way to deal with message processing can cause problems --
- >particularly if you've done something weird like take apart loops in your
- >code and send a message to yourself to compute the next part of your loop
- >(useful for handling things like ARexx-quit, ^C, window-close, etc. messages).
-
- speaking of sending messages to yourself - is their anything
- dangerous about sending a message to your window's msgport? will it
- upset intuition - i can't see why it should.
-
- craig
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