[DGD] terminology change

Shentino shentino at gmail.com
Sat Sep 18 10:55:55 CEST 2010


On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Felix A. Croes <felix at dworkin.nl> wrote:

> > Maybe callouts? They're more like timed callbacks or timers or...
> Something along those lines.
>
> I called them "scheduled tasks" in a web page I set up for Hydra,
> <http://www.dworkin.nl/hydra/> but callouts are actually more than
> that.  They are much more essential than timed callbacks, and you
> don't just pass a pointer to static data along but a bunch of
> arguments that may contain complex datastructures which don't exist
> anywhere else.
>

Looks like the term "task" is here to stay.

I wasn't aware that your decision had already been made.

It certainly sounds less cumbersome than Execution Round (?) so it's still
an improvement in my opinion.



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