aSynch

After starting JS, I looked into how to implement asynchronous operation of functions in Ruby. Essentially, I created a class to handle all operations; methods are called by inputing them into the operations queue. There is a Timeout function, which waits a set time before adding callbacks to the queue; a question method which waits for user input before running the callback, and an interval method which would run repeatedly until forever by default, or a given number of times if specified.

I also built a console for this class; you can call any of the instance methods(including queue_method, so with some tedium you can actually run any method, but method chaining doesn't work). close_loop(to end the program) is aliased as quit.

To do:

• why does close_loop stop the run loop early?
  • When I call quit directly, it is will run no other commands until it quits the Asynch loop(expected behavior, as quit isn't threaded)
    • It also runs a command twice sometimes, as the runloop and the quits' loop to finish the queue start running simultaneously
  • When I queue a method to quit, it stops running the queue until the interval is complete
  • When I call quit through the console, it calls quit twice
  • quit will also need to kill any infinite intervals
• improve console--method_missing, make it play well w/ user questions