From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Wette Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: anyone define port types? Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 16:55:22 -0700 Message-ID: <7B3669D3-FE59-475B-B643-441D27100EBF@verizon.net> References: <87y492mnjp.fsf@pobox.com> <327356C5-3603-405F-B060-3FE1CDBD81BB@verizon.net> <87oa9om9p1.fsf@netris.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2104\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1459900558 5496 80.91.229.3 (5 Apr 2016 23:55:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 23:55:58 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 06 01:55:49 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1anap2-0004Nb-13 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2016 01:55:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39897 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anap1-0006jp-86 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:55:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54397) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anaok-0006jR-Mh for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:55:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anaog-0004aw-9z for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:55:30 -0400 Original-Received: from omr-m007e.mx.aol.com ([204.29.186.9]:60502) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anaog-0004aP-5b for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout-mcd02.mx.aol.com (mtaout-mcd02.mx.aol.com [172.26.223.206]) by omr-m007e.mx.aol.com (Outbound Mail Relay) with ESMTP id 84FEF38000BD; Tue, 5 Apr 2016 19:55:24 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.2.129] (0x5b3139322e3136382e322e3132395d [72.87.216.125]) by mtaout-mcd02.mx.aol.com (MUA/Third Party Client Interface) with ESMTPA id 0E0243800008C; Tue, 5 Apr 2016 19:55:23 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87oa9om9p1.fsf@netris.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.2104) x-aol-global-disposition: G x-aol-sid: 3039ac1adfce5704506b174b X-AOL-IP: 72.87.216.125 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 204.29.186.9 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:18273 gmane.lisp.guile.user:12544 Archived-At: > On Apr 5, 2016, at 7:06 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote: >=20 > Matt Wette writes: >=20 >>> On Mar 28, 2016, at 12:04 PM, Andy Wingo wrote: >>> I am working on improving our port implementation to take advantage = of >>> the opportunity to break ABI in 2.2. I am wondering how much I can >>> break C API as well -- there are some changes that would allow = better >>> user-space threading >>=20 >> I made an attempt to use soft ports, but backed out after I could not >> figure a way to extra data I wanted to associate with my port. >>=20 >> Addition of an access function to user-defined data would enlarge the >> cases for which soft ports could be used. >=20 > Object properties can be used to associate extra information with any > object that has identity, which includes ports. See > 'make-object-property' in the Guile manual. Thanks. I had forgotten about that. =E2=80=94 Matt=