Nala Ginrut <nalagin...@gmail.com> writes:
> Will it be a proper solution if I use "monitor"?
No, that wouldn't work. For one thing, what if the body of
'with-locale' takes a long time? Also, consider this:
Thread 1: (with-locale "foo" (strftime ...))
Thread 2: (format ...)
If the 'format' and the 'strftime' happen simultaneously, then 'format'
will use the "foo" locale, which is incorrect.
During 'with-locale', we would have to prevent other threads from doing
_any_ locale-dependent operation. In a system like Guile, where a
process may contain arbitrary C code and shared libraries, there's no
sane way for us to do this. In any case, it would not scale well.
Regards,
Mark
