Re^2: Mixing asynchronous data feed with synchronous program flow control

[haukex]

Event-driven programming is just messy like this.

It doesn't have to be, though, it's usually just that it requires more re-thinking of the structure of the code and scoping of variables, and thinking of everything in terms of events - IMHO Your Mother's instinct of "there must be a more elegant solution" was right :-)