Structured concurrency with runnables?

[Remi Forax]

> From: "Eric Kolotyluk" <eric at kolotyluk.net>
> To: "loom-dev" <loom-dev at openjdk.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2023 6:32:01 PM
> Subject: Re: Structured concurrency with runnables?

> Yes, that works, but it would be nice to skip the boilerplate and and just do

> scope.fork( new Runnable(...));
You have to choose what will be the default return value and choosing null is perhaps not the best default. 

Rémi 

> On 2023-05-11 9:15 a.m., Remi Forax wrote:

>>> From: "Josiah Noel" [ mailto:josiahnoel at gmail.com | <josiahnoel at gmail.com> ]
>>> To: "loom-dev" [ mailto:loom-dev at openjdk.org | <loom-dev at openjdk.org> ]
>>> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2023 5:53:11 PM
>>> Subject: Structured concurrency with runnables?

>>> Would be nice if there was a variant of fork could take a Runnable. Turning my
>>> runnable tasks into Callable is relatively easy, but it's an inconvenience
>>> nonetheless.

>> Callable<Void> callable = Executors.callable(runnable, null);

>> regards,
>> Rémi
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