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 The files in the ''at/lang'' directory define custom language features which mostly use AmbientTalk/2's reflective facilities to extend the language. The files in the ''at/lang'' directory define custom language features which mostly use AmbientTalk/2's reflective facilities to extend the language.
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 fut // return the future to a client fut // return the future to a client
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 +The ''makeFuture'' function can also take a timeout. If a timeout is given it returns a returns a pair [lease, resolver]  where the lease timer gets immediately activated. If the future is not resolved within the given timeout, the lease expires and ruins the future with a ''TimeoutException''. Note that this means a lease will get parameter-passed rather than the future if given to other actors.
  
 === Auxilary functions in the futures module ==== === Auxilary functions in the futures module ====
at/tutorial/appendix.txt · Last modified: 2021/09/24 10:28 by elisag