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Re: Release 1.6 critical TODO items.
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Rob Browning |
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Re: Release 1.6 critical TODO items. |
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Sat, 23 Feb 2002 16:01:56 -0600 |
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Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
> Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > gentemp created symbols that were unique in a given obarray, which had
>> > not much to do with the global hash table that holds all (interned)
>> > symbols. when you had no other use for the obarray, using gentemp
>> > with a specific obarray was equivalent to using a specific prefix.
>>
>> OK, so do I have to worry about thread safety?
>
> Yes, I'd say so. We should probably offer a syntactic form for
> wrapping code that needs to run isolated. Is there some SRFI about
> this?
Hmm -- could you elaborate? I'm not sure exactly what you're asking?
I was just asking if I should wrap my syncase.scm gensym internals
with a (lock-mutex) (unlock-mutex) pair...
--
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org
Previously @cs.utexas.edu
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