On Wed, 27 Apr 2022, Raul Miller wrote:
That said, an atomic operation (such as would be provided here) would allow the programmer sufficient control to build other mechanisms.
An atomic operation is not sufficient. You also need to be able to go to sleep.
What I think we want, though, is something which minimizes unnecessary verbiage -- stuff like "this operation is really only useful in this phrase" (so why wasn't that phrase introduced as the primitive?).
There is a difficult balance between making the common case easy and making the uncommon case possible. (And avoiding bloat.)
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