> From: Taylor R Campbell <campb...@mumble.net> > Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:23:51 +0000 > > Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:40:16 -0700 > From: Matt Birkholz <m...@birkholz.chandler.az.us> > > ... and let's get concrete with the existing thread-event mechanism. > > Please don't. It's extremely hard to engineer anything reliably [...]
Don't you know it is bad form to tell someone what they're doing is impossible? > Interleaving output is one thing. Crashing because of corrupted > internal data structures is quite another. OK, but let us count the cost. > > MIT Scheme has some particularly bad failure modes [...] > > One easy way is to close a channel that someone's waiting to do I/O > on. Oh my; that WAS spectacular. But Scheme is just calling test-select-registry with a closed channel still in io-registry. I patched it. Anything else? _______________________________________________ MIT-Scheme-devel mailing list MIT-Scheme-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/mit-scheme-devel
