"Protothreads"

[Dave]

In article <dv998q$4ee$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Marcio says...
>
>Dave wrote:
>> Is something like this implementable in D with the newly added template and
>> mixin abilities? http://www.sics.se/~adam/pt/
>
>
>	It would be really nice to have something like that. I have written a 
>select-based httpd server in the past (no threads, just select on socket 
>/ multiplexing) and it was quite fast (I believe other servers like 
>Xitami, lighthttpd etc use a similar approach). But having to use state 
>machines was a pain. Ditto for an rsync server. Something like 
>Protothreads would have been neat.
>
>marcio

I agree - I don't know enough about the recent changes in D's template semantics
to say if it's possible or not... I'm guessing not, but perhaps there is another
way (w/o strictly duplicating the C macro approach)?

Thanks,

- Dave