On 6/16/05, Ted Zlatanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure I understand the problem. Do you mean that if a user > changes variable A in thread 1, he expects thread 2 to also notice the > change for certain global variables? That's easy to do, if you > consider that such global variables are few and far between compared > to local per-thread variables.
This is not really true for typical elisp programs -- global variables (especially buffer-local global variables) are used extremely often, and in almost every case must be "truly global" (visible in all threads). However, if a global variable is let-bound, the let-binding should of course be thread-local. My personal feeling is that it may be easiest to simply move to a deep-binding system for elisp (and ideally use lexical-binding for local variables), but such a change may be a lot of work given the myriad special varieties of variable bindings (buffer-local etc). -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
