put URL

[Peter Haworth]

I ended up issuing resetAll which seemed to fix the problem.

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 11:45 AM Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
wrote:

> Peter Haworth wrote:
> > The dictionary says all actions that refer to a URL are blocking but if I
> > execute:
> >
> > put URL myURL into tResults
> >
> > ... my handler immediately goes to the next statement and tResuls
> contains
> > "error URL is currently loading".
> >
> > The url is question is to an api so I guess the error could be coming
> from
> > there but all the error messages I've received have been wrapped in XML.
>
> We really need some clarity on this.  I've been using LC for years, but
> whatever rules might allow me to anticipate whether network I/O is
> blocking or non-blocking have eluded me in practice.
>
> These days I almost always rely on callbacks, since I know those are
> always non-blocking, though even then I'm not sure of the implications
> in terms of overall performance, given that it provides us the illusion
> of concurrency but without true parallelism.
>
> Could someone on the core team draft a page that would help us
> understand network I/O in terms of blocking and non-blocking, and how
> non-blocking code is handled in a single-threaded engine?
>
> --
>   Richard Gaskin
>   Fourth World Systems
>   Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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