First off, a quick summary of the situation and current design. I have a "bot" that connects to a chat network, sort of like IRC. After I send the connection and auth data and so forth, I then go to a loop that waits for packets from the chat server. When it receives a packet, it decodes it and does the appropiate thing, which is most often calling a subroutine that does stuff then returns.

My problem is, in one of these callbacks I want to get some more data from the network and do stuff based on it. The call back itself can easily send the request for data, but how does it get it back? My problem is that the packet that responds the request isn't guaranteed, or even likely to by the next packet, or the packet after that for that matter, and of course those packets that aren't a direct response to my request need to be processed by my main loop. So thats my design question, how can I do the appropiate thing with the response?

In reply to Design decision, call backs and network data by BUU

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