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Id: 97022
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Requestors: MITHALDU [...] cpan.org
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Fixed in: 0.29

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  Mon Jul 07 10:26:49 2014 MITHALDU [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: documentation does not describe on a high level how asynchronicity is provided
Due to your linking the PDF describing Futures in Scala, a bunch of germans discussed Future.pm in #hannover.pm and one main issue i saw come up is that Future.pm does nothing to explain how the asynchronicity happens, whether Future.pm provides it, or if something else needs to provide it, and how it does so. As an example question for this kind of lack of understanding, i'll translate one: "so making a new Future object starts a new thread?"
  Mon Jul 07 10:37:23 2014 leonerd-cpan [...] leonerd.org.uk - Correspondence added
On Mon Jul 07 10:26:49 2014, MITHALDU wrote: Show quoted text
> Due to your linking the PDF describing Futures in Scala, a bunch of > germans discussed Future.pm in #hannover.pm and one main issue i saw > come up is that Future.pm does nothing to explain how the > asynchronicity happens, whether Future.pm provides it, or if something > else needs to provide it, and how it does so. > > As an example question for this kind of lack of understanding, i'll > translate one: > > "so making a new Future object starts a new thread?"
15:34 <Mithaldu> "Future itself provides no asynchronicity, but is meant to be passed on to event loops, thread managers or similar. The main purpose of Future itself is to provide a pleasing and useful API to both developers and asynchronicity providers." -- Paul Evans
  Mon Jul 07 10:37:24 2014 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Thu Jul 17 06:15:39 2014 leonerd-cpan [...] leonerd.org.uk - Correspondence added
Added. -- Paul Evans
Subject: rt97022.patch
=== modified file 'lib/Future.pm' --- lib/Future.pm 2014-06-26 18:23:14 +0000 +++ lib/Future.pm 2014-07-16 23:41:20 +0000 @@ -65,6 +65,13 @@ different methods on the class. The methods below are documented in two sections; those of interest to each side of the interface. +It should be noted however, that this module does not in any way provide an +actual mechanism for performing this asynchronous activity; it merely provides +a way to create objects that can be used for control and data flow around +those operations. It allows such code to be written in a neater, +forward-reading manner, and simplifies many common patterns that are often +involved in such situations. + See also L<Future::Utils> which contains useful loop-constructing functions, to run a future-returning function repeatedly in a loop.
  Thu Jul 17 06:15:42 2014 leonerd-cpan [...] leonerd.org.uk - Status changed from 'open' to 'patched'
  Thu Jul 17 20:40:37 2014 leonerd-cpan [...] leonerd.org.uk - Correspondence added
Released in 0.29 -- Paul Evans
  Thu Jul 17 20:40:38 2014 leonerd-cpan [...] leonerd.org.uk - Status changed from 'patched' to 'resolved'
  Thu Jul 17 20:40:39 2014 leonerd-cpan [...] leonerd.org.uk - Fixed in 0.29 added