Re: [Chicken-users] go routines for chicken

[Peter Bex]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 07:17:58PM +0100, Moritz Heidkamp wrote:
> Daniel Leslie <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Go also enjoys a rather robust Channels system, which is sort of like
> > Scheme's ports, only it's type-safe by design.
> 
> How are Scheme ports not type-safe? The main difference is that Scheme
> ports are limited to just a single type (i.e. characters) but that
> doesn't make them type-unsafe, no? :-)

Actually, it's two types: Characters and the eof-object's type.  And in
Gambit, there are other ports as well, from which you can only read
objects (like their directory-ports).

Cheers,
Peter the smartass
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