I am actually in favour removing the concept of "tasks" from the SAGA spec. It simply creates intellectual overhead. (Remember people keep asking about the difference of tasks and jobs??)
- synchronous operation - asynchronous operation ; starts immediately - task creating operation ; needs explicit start
Both of the latter calls return a task handle (or call it async op handle), that why, in SAGA, they are esentially the same.
so, call it async handle
Well, our point is really that everythin usful from task should go into the job interface (job should implement task).
So, maybe you are actually in violent agreement, kind of? :-) Somwhoe I doubt it :-P
violent, at least -- agreement, maybe? Thilo -- Thilo Kielmann http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/