[Chicken-users] CHICKEN Meetup updates

2016-09-21 Thread Christian Kellermann
Hi Chickens! Just a small update mail on the upcomming meeting in Nuremberg: * The venue will be open on Friday 9 o'clock instead of two in the afternoon. Early birds will have the opportunity to experience the scrambling setup at the venue and have a nice hacking session. * The early birds

[Chicken-users] srfi-18 threads question

2016-09-21 Thread brandon
Hi All, New to this list and srfi-18 threads. I want to make use of parameters in a thread-safe way, but I have run into problems. It seems to me that parameters created in one thread cannot be manipulated in a persistent way from another thread. Here is some example code showing what I mean:

Re: [Chicken-users] srfi-18 threads question

2016-09-21 Thread John Cowan
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 4:53 PM, wrote: > ;; Why does the mutation of a simple global in a thread become visible to > the main thread, but the mutation of global parameter does not? > > In general, parameters are designed to be per-thread rather than shared. If they weren't,