Re: future hangs

by Marcus Downing :: Rate this Message:

Can somebody explain why that makes it work? What about the Application class would break a future? Or what else is going on?

it works! thanks!
Alessandro

Mark Harrah wrote:

Don't use Application. Just use a normal main method. See
http://scala-blogs.org/2008/07/application-trait-considered-harmful.html

-Mark

On Tuesday 07 July 2009, turicum wrote:
> object Test extends Application {
>
> val s = future(getData("AAPL\n"))
> val t = getData("INTC\n")
> println(t) // that's fine
> println(s()) // hangs here
>
> def getData(query: String): String = {
> query
> }
> }

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