[whatwg] Accessing cookies from workers

[Jonas Sicking]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Giovanni Campagna
<scampa.giovanni at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/3/9 Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc>:
>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Giovanni Campagna
>>> This can be even worse: how would you syncronize the code in the
>>> callback with code right after the call? You don't have any of
>>> semaphores or mutexes in ES and I don't expect them to be added soon.
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand the problem you are describing. Could you
>> show an example using the APIs that exist in the spec today and with
>> an async cookie API added?
>
> var x = 7;
> function callback(cookies) {
> x = 5;
> }
> getAllCookies(callback);
> alert(x == 7);

True. The callback can't happen in the middle of executing code.
Javascript uses a run-to-completion model.

/ Jonas