this "Future" stuff looks like "promises." "promises" are still an ascending pattern; Perl, being deeply singlethreaded, seems an awkward fit for the pattern outside of an explicit concurrency system like POE or such, with its event loop. Promises are fundamentally a way to organize a more maintainable event-driven control flow. Towards supporting promises in core, it seems like "Futures in core" could get added on to the threading wish-list.Thread Previous | Thread Next