Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: > Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: > >> On Sat 14 Sep 2013 15:59, l...@gnu.org (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.) > > My preference would be to keep the "mvars" name, however imperfect, > simply because many people in the neighboring Haskell community already > know them as "mvars".
OK, I think that makes sense then (I’ve seen mvars mentioned in various places in the meantime.) Hopefully the manual will make it clear what this is about. ;-) Ludo’.
