At 12:11 PM 8/28/00 -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
What if every subroutine tagged itself with a list of the globals
it uses, so a calling routine would know to add those to the list
of globals it wants locked?
If you're looking for automagic locking of variables, you're treading deep
into
That a user my need to have two or more variables in sync for proper
operation. And cooperative threads don't address that issue.
Cooperative only helps _perhaps_ with perl not needing to protrect its
own structures.
We are in agreement.
I was specifically addressing the problem of
--On 25.08.2000 20:02 Uhr -0400 Steven W McDougall wrote:
Others have pointed out that code inside sub-expressions and blocks
could also assign to our variables. This is true, but it isn't our
problem. As long as each assignment is carried out correctly by the
interpreter, then each variable
