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[PATCH 0/2] publish: Add Avahi support.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>, 44800 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#44800] [PATCH v2 1/3] Add Avahi support.
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 12:02:13 +0100

Hi,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 18:04, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> (I wanted to add an API in Guile-Avahi to “invert inversion of control”
>> so that one could escape callback hell but never got around to
>> completing it.)
>
> Out of curiosity, what do you mean by “invert inversion of control”?

Users of the Avahi client library are supposed to pass “callbacks”,
which leads to “inversion of control”: the library decides when you code
is called.  See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_of_control>.

Inverting it would mean providing a natural way for users to call the
library.

HTH!

Ludo’.

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