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Re: Fn ptrs & ... callbacks!?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Brown)
Fri Sep 22 07:42:40 1995
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 01:55:39 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <199509220328.XAA17676@zork.tiac.net> from "Steve Witham" at Sep 21, 95 10:38:21 pm
From: phil@bolthole.com (Philip Brown)
[ Steve Witham writes ]
>
> >It's also a problem for handling callbacks from GUI controls.
>
> I thought Java got rid of callbacks by having threads...didn't it?
> Callbacks are just a dumb, inside-out way to implement threads.
No they are not. Callbacks are a way of implementing Event-driven
programming.
This should not be confused with threading. They are completely separate
issues.
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