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Date:Mon Mar 26 23:05:56 1993 
Subject:Re: Inspecting the runnable saved state of a pop process 
From:Luc Beaudoin 
Volume-ID:930326.03 

axs@cs.bham.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman) writes:

> I think that all you need really is an alternative to runproc,
> called, e.g. evalproc(Process,Procedure), which takes a process and
> a procedure, and runs Procedure inside Process in such a way that
> when the Procedure returns so does evalproc.

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> Of course, there may be more efficient ways of finding what
> the state of the process is, but that would require desinging a lot
> of (messy?) procedures specially for the purpose.


It's a pitty that processes aren't implemented as records. It would be
MUCH CLEANER to have the process's information simply available as
fields. (This would not only be useful for the user, but it would also
be useful for teaching students about processes.) From your posting I
take it that it would be difficult (too late?) for Poplog to achieve
this. However, if Pop9x is aiming for a clean Pop standard, then should
it be bogged down just because the Poplog implementation is deficient?

Luc
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