On 05/09/11 19:09, Arthur A. Gleckler wrote: > I also prefer CSP when writing programs, but it makes sense to include the > most fundamental mechanisms, e.g. at least mutexes and condition variables. > As Jeronimo points out, they are the primitives out of which higher-level > abstractions like CSP can be implemented.
They *can* be, but it's not always the most efficient way. So, yeah, fine for pedagogical purposes, but for real-world programming, native support for mailboxes of one kind or another would be Real Nice. They're a more robust programming model than shared-state-protected-by-locks, too - harder to make subtle hard-to-find-let-along-debug errors. Still not impossible, mind ;-) ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
