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guile-a-sync3

This is the guile-a-sync3 library. It provides both an asynchronous event loop for guile-3.0, and coroutines to enable an event loop (including other event loops such as the glib event loop) to be used with 'await' semantics to deal with inversion of control - otherwise known as "callback hell". It also makes provision for guile-3.0's suspendable ports.

The guile-a-sync3 library is provided in seven modules:

• (a-sync coroutines) - provides coroutines for await semantics on asynchronous events
• (a-sync event-loop) - provides an event loop for asynchronous events
• (a-sync await-ports) - provides procedures for suspendable ports
• (a-sync thread-pool) - provides a thread pool with asychonous procedures
• (a-sync monotonic-time) - enables monotonic time to be used for timeouts
• (a-sync gnome-glib) - provides some convenience await procedures for the glib main loop
• (a-sync compose) - provides the compose-a-sync macro interface for a-sync coroutines
• (a-sync meeting) - provides for synchronization between a-sync or compose-a-sync blocks

For an overview of the operation of this library, see the general overview