Re: Return value of finished threads

["Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>]

On 2018-07-20 11:15, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
>> Do you have an implementation in mind?  Because in general, passing
>> variables between threads in C also needs global variables...
> 
> Not (yet).
> 
> I've written this from my use case point of view. It is obvious that
> global variables are needed (maybe kept in a hash or so), but I rather
> give this task to threads.c, instead writing it myself (and urging
> anybody else to write it herself).

On the ELisp side, I wonder if it'd make sense to attach a plist to each thread.  With this you would do (thread-put t 'result (returned value)) from the thread, and on the waiting side you'd run thread-join before accessing the result with (thread-get t 'result)

Clément.