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Re: [Chicken-users] Please do not drop 'thread-terminate!' from the SRFI
From: |
Vincent Manis |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-users] Please do not drop 'thread-terminate!' from the SRFI 18 impl |
Date: |
Sat, 9 Aug 2008 07:04:20 -0700 |
On 2008-Aug-9, at 04:23, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote:
If the postulated programmer had just found mygreatprogram on the net
and want's to run it, is it a good thing for said programmer to find
chicken unable to run it until a patch is applied?
And what mygreatprogram is written in R6RS Scheme?
Anyway, while I really prefer terminating thread-terminate!, I would
be happy with
a strong warning in the manual. This allows mygreatprogram to run on
Chicken
(though perhaps crashing occasionally, as it does on other Scheme
implementations,
because of a design where threads were terminated prematurely), while
still letting
programmers know that it shouldn't be used. (Think of thread-
terminate! as being
like gets in the Standard C library: everybody knows you shouldn't use
it, but it's
left in the library for compatibility with programs written 30 years
ago.) This warning
is far too weak in the SRFI, so the manual is the obvious place to
document it.
And with that, I shall shut up on this matter. :-)
-- v
- Re: [Chicken-users] Please do not drop 'thread-terminate!' from the SRFI 18 impl, (continued)
- Re: [Chicken-users] Please do not drop 'thread-terminate!' from the SRFI 18 impl, Vincent Manis, 2008/08/08
- Re: [Chicken-users] Please do not drop 'thread-terminate!' from the SRFI 18 impl, Elf, 2008/08/08
- Re: [Chicken-users] Please do not drop 'thread-terminate!' from the SRFI 18 impl, Kon Lovett, 2008/08/09
- Re: [Chicken-users] Please do not drop 'thread-terminate!' from the SRFI 18 impl, John Cowan, 2008/08/09
- Re: [Chicken-users] Please do not drop 'thread-terminate!' from the SRFI 18 impl, Elf, 2008/08/10
- Re: [Chicken-users] Please do not drop 'thread-terminate!' from the SRFI 18 impl, John Cowan, 2008/08/10
- Re: [Chicken-users] Please do not drop 'thread-terminate!' from the SRFI 18 impl, F. Wittenberger, 2008/08/10
- Re: [Chicken-users] Please do not drop 'thread-terminate!' from the SRFI 18 impl, Elf, 2008/08/10
- Re: [Chicken-users] Please do not drop 'thread-terminate!' from the SRFI 18 impl, Vincent Manis, 2008/08/10
- Re: [Chicken-users] Please do not drop 'thread-terminate!' from the SRFI 18 impl, F. Wittenberger, 2008/08/09
- Re: [Chicken-users] Please do not drop 'thread-terminate!' from the SRFI 18 impl,
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