[Dev] Problem with collection notifications

[John Anderson]

Ted Leung wrote:

>
> On Sep 26, 2005, at 9:03 AM, John Anderson wrote:
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>>
>>
>> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
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>>>
>>> Well, you can disable notifications *during* notifications.   That's 
>>> the simplest way to avoid cascading.  In point-to-point  
>>> subscription systems (like peak.events), you can also use the  trick 
>>> of removing the current callback from the subscriber list  when 
>>> calling it, so other subscribers will see events generated by  that 
>>> callback, but the callback itself cannot receive events that  it 
>>> generates itself.
>>>
>>>
>> I tried to disable notifications during notifications, however this  
>> only works with our synchronous notifications, not our asynchronous  
>> ones -- which is the problem I first raised.
>>
>
> What changes did you make to disable notifications?   The code that I  
> have now controls the notification stuff in one place, so it should  
> be possible to disable notifications before they get delivered.

Technically I don't disable notifications, I just don't dirty blocks 
when I get a notification that I want to ignore.

>
> Ted