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# Promising Future
A glimpse of a promising future in which ruby supports delayed execution

## Overview

    require 'promise'
    require 'future'    # you can just require future if using both

    x = promise { 1 + 2 }
    y = future  { sleep 10; 5 + 5 }

    puts x      # => 3
    # ... do work for 5 seconds
    puts y      # => 10, after blocking 5 seconds

Promises and futures both transparantly delay the execution of a block.
Futures run the evaluation of the block optimistically in another thread.

Note that this is pretty useless in irb, which will evaluate everything
as part of its read-eval-print loop.

Yardocs are available at <http://promise.rubyforge.org/>.  Tested under MRI 
1.8 and JRuby.

## Classes

 * {Promise}
 * {Future}

## Installation

Promising future is distributed via gemcutter under the name 'promise'.

    gem install promise

## Source
The source is available at <http://github.com/bhuga/promising-future>

## Author
Ben Lavender (http://github.com/bhuga)

## Unlicense
Promising Future is free and unencumbered public domain software. For more
information, see <http://unlicense.org/> or the accompanying UNLICENSE file.

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1 entries across 1 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
promise-0.1.1	README