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Re: Concurrent MVars for Guile
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Andy Wingo |
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Re: Concurrent MVars for Guile |
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Tue, 17 Sep 2013 22:18:57 +0200 |
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On Sat 14 Sep 2013 15:59, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> It looks like a useful tool to me.
FWIW I totally agree!
> I don’t like the name “mvar” (“monadic variable”, I guess). Perhaps
> “synchronized box”, or “transactional variable”, or...? The downside of
> choosing another name is that people familiar with the concept won’t
> recognize it first-hand.
I guess I can see this. I prefer "box" to "variable" fwiw. How about
"tbox"? (The T for threadsafe or transactional or something; perhaps
this is a bad idea.)
Dunno :)
Andy
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