APN 2013-06-28: Finally figured the way to understand coroutine-based programming was (as always) to sit and actually write some real code. The result is the fiber package.
Attributes
- website
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/tclfiber
Documentation
- official reference
Description
From the introduction of the package:
- This package provides an implementation of "fibers" for Tcl. Fibers, as the term is used in this package, are threads of execution that are co-operatively multitasked and use message passing as their primary means of communication, including channel-based I/O.
- Fibers are implemented using Tcl coroutines and are compatible with any Tcl application model provided it runs the Tcl event loop.
- Erlang programmers may find some similarity to that language's process model. That is not just happenstance.