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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ PEP: XXX -Title: Standard futures library +Title: futures - execute computations asynchronously Version: $Revision$ Last-Modified: $Date$ Author: Brian Quinlan <brian@sweetapp.com> @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ Rationale The proposed design of this module was heavily influenced by the the Java java.util.concurrent package [1]_. The conceptual basis of the module, as in -Java, is the Future class, which represents the progress and results of an +Java, is the Future class, which represents the progress and result of an asynchronous computation. The Future class makes little commitment to the evaluation mode being used e.g. it can be be used to represent lazy or eager evaluation, for evaluation using threads, processes or remote procedure call. |