From: Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com>
To: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
Cc: Dario Teixeira <dario.teixeira@nleyten.com>,
Rudi Grinberg <rudi.grinberg@gmail.com>,
caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Functorising over Cohttp's backends
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 09:08:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86inuioc89.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1EA71190C2C049079BE32A69F18ABB9C@erratique.ch> ("Daniel =?utf-8?Q?B=C3=BCnzli=22's?= message of "Mon, 29 Aug 2016 23:51:55 +0200")
Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch> writes:
> On Monday 29 August 2016 at 20:42, Dario Teixeira wrote:
>> Cohttp is perhaps the poster child for how the Lwt/Async schism
>> makes many APIs way more complex than they should be! (Not that
>> there's an easy solution to this situation...)
>
> I'd rather say it is the poster child on how not to cope with the
> lwt/async schism... Don't functorize over IO, provide non-blocking
> abstractions that can be used with either.
Is there any HTTP library for Ocaml that separates I/O from the state
machine? I have looked around a little bit for something I'm working
on, but with no luck. I'm told HTTP is especially hard to separate
these things but I'm a bit ignorant as to why.
>
> D
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-29 13:53 Dario Teixeira
2016-08-29 15:39 ` Rudi Grinberg
2016-08-29 18:42 ` Dario Teixeira
2016-08-29 21:51 ` Daniel Bünzli
2016-08-30 9:08 ` Malcolm Matalka [this message]
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