I'm programming a data type which represents a list of non-fixed length. The length is represented as an ic variable, and as its lower bound increases new element variables are added to the list. I want to provide a suspension list and a port to notify watchers of this event. I've got the code mostly working, but am facing one problem. I want to close the port when the list is instantiated, but at the moment I appear to be doing it too soon -- other demons are still waiting to write to the port. When they try, they fail (and what's more annoying: they fail silently). These demons should have higher priority than the instantiation demon, but because they themselves are triggered by events in lib(ic) and lib(ic_sets), they do not seem to be happening early enough. Is there a way to delay until a suspension list is empty? Or is there another way to avoid this problem? Malcolm -- "Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence. - G.K.Chesterton, On Lying in BedReceived on Thu Sep 06 2007 - 10:45:36 CEST
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