Re: [PATCH updated] Support for filesystem watching (inotify)

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:06:51 -0300 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote: 

SM> That doesn't sound right to me.  At least I'm having trouble figuring
SM> out how to bend my mind such that this file-watcher matches (even
SM> coarsely) the concept of a "future".
SM> [...]
>> So `file-watch' would return
>> (make-url-future :value (lambda () (unwatch file here))
>> :errorback  (lambda (&rest d) (handle unwatch errors))
>> :callback (lambda (f) (arbitrary callback)))

SM> I'm not saying you can't twist the code so that it works, but it
SM> makes no sense at the conceptual level [...] It's just a completely
SM> wrong analogy.

So you're cautiously in favor, then? ;)

Ted