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From: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>
To: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] Fix errors generated when multiple IRC clients talk to a single IRC proxy.
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:58:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wq81kblx.fsf@fenchurch.hh.sledj.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wq81om34.fsf@zigzag.favinet>

On Wed, Oct 15 2014, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> () David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>
> () Wed, 8 Oct 2014 15:03:17 +0100
>
>    +  (when erc-channel-new-member-names
>    +    (maphash (lambda (nick user)
>    +	       (if (null (gethash nick erc-channel-new-member-names))
>    +		   (erc-remove-channel-user nick)))
>    +	     erc-channel-users)
>    +    (setq erc-channel-new-member-names nil)))
>
> I don't know if this is the case for Emacs Lisp, but i've been
> burned when (and am thus now leery of) doing a destructive
> operation on the hash table while hash walking, elsewhere
> (here, ‘erc-remove-channel-user’ boils down to ‘remhash’).
>
> Better to restructure as two passes: accumulation + destruction.
> That way, we cleanly avoid a bug, whether manifest or latent.

I understand your concern, however this is not that bug.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-15  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-08 14:03 [PATCH v1] Fix errors generated when multiple IRC clients talk to a single IRC proxy David Edmondson
2014-10-15  6:58 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-15  7:06   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-15  7:58   ` David Edmondson [this message]
2014-10-15 13:54   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-15 15:50 ` Mirek Kaim

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