[Lazarus] How does one add an event to a blocking system?

[Sven Barth]

Am 22.10.2015 10:21 schrieb "Mark Morgan Lloyd" <
markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk>:
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> Michael Schnell wrote:
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>> On 10/21/2015 05:27 PM, Sven Barth wrote:
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>>> Better usage of terms: Exceptions are thrown (or raised), events are
signaled.
>>
>> You are right. "thrown" is not a good wording for Events. I mostly read
"fired" on that behalf.
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> "Signalled" is not a good choice IMO, because of unix-style signals and
their handlers (e.g. sending a HUP signal to a process, to get it to
re-read its configuration).
>
> "Triggered" can have problems if a database is being used.
>
> "Fired" seems like a fairly good choice, since it also implies immediacy.

Yes, there is a bit of ambiguity with "signaled" and "fired" indeed seems
best :)

Regards,
Sven
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