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Author SHA1 Message Date
Bob Nystrom 556af50f83 Revise low level fiber semantics to play nicer with schedulers.
Now that I'm starting to write a real async scheduler on top of Wren's
basic fiber API, I have a better feel for what it needs. It turns out
run() is not it.

- Remove run() methods.
- Add transfer() which leaves the caller of the invoked fiber alone.
- Add suspend() to return control to the host application.
- Add Timer.schedule() to start a new independently scheduled fiber.
- Change Timer.sleep() so that it only transfers control to explicitly
  scheduled fibers, not any one.
2015-08-30 22:15:37 -07:00
Bob Nystrom 5fb6186d7d Make constructors just methods.
* Eliminate "new" reserved word.
* Allow "this" before a method definition to define a constructor.
* Only create a default constructor for classes that don't define one.
2015-07-10 09:18:22 -07:00
Bob Nystrom bfce24151e Tweak docs. 2015-04-22 07:45:20 -07:00
Gavin Schulz d0bebbd380 Add docs for fiber.call. 2015-04-04 16:50:40 -07:00
Bob Nystrom 7d45dda383 String.fromCodePoint(). Fix #219. 2015-03-27 07:43:36 -07:00
Bob Nystrom 05ba7d9fbf Add fiber features needed for to write an external scheduler:
- Allow yielding the main fiber. This exits the interpreter. The
  host can resume it by calling a method.
- Allow getting a reference to the current fiber.
2015-03-07 12:32:11 -08:00
Bob Nystrom 96ceaa528b Allow empty argument list methods.
- Compile them as calls and definitions.
- Use them for call(), clear(), run(), try(), and yield().
- Update the docs.
2015-02-26 23:08:36 -08:00
Bob Nystrom 2a4804bbc9 Reorganize core library docs. 2015-01-18 15:36:36 -08:00