From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Concurrent MVars for Guile Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:01:00 +0100 Message-ID: <87a9ewaxo3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87fvtn1wv8.fsf@tines.lan> <87wqmjmrl8.fsf@gnu.org> <87d2o7ryku.fsf@pobox.com> <87zjmwrbv3.fsf@netris.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389877574 29452 80.91.229.3 (16 Jan 2014 13:06:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:06:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andy Wingo , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 16 14:06:18 2014 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 1W3meH-0003oA-CY for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:06:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60718 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3meG-00044V-Tb for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:06:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40490) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3me9-00044H-HD for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:06:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3me4-0007h8-Jo for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:06:09 -0500 Original-Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([141.255.128.1]:55610) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3me4-0007fF-Bl for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:06:04 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hera.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7124A42; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:01:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hera.aquilenet.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id mLC1MEA6cO91; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:01:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from pluto (unknown [193.50.110.185]) by hera.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 61CD5430; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:01:01 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 27 =?utf-8?Q?Niv=C3=B4se?= an 222 de la =?utf-8?Q?R?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <87zjmwrbv3.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:47:44 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 141.255.128.1 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:16808 Archived-At: Mark H Weaver skribis: > Andy Wingo writes: > >> On Sat 14 Sep 2013 15:59, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: >> >>> It looks like a useful tool to me. >> >> FWIW I totally agree! >> >>> I don=E2=80=99t like the name =E2=80=9Cmvar=E2=80=9D (=E2=80=9Cmonadic = variable=E2=80=9D, I guess). Perhaps >>> =E2=80=9Csynchronized box=E2=80=9D, or =E2=80=9Ctransactional variable= =E2=80=9D, or...? The downside of >>> choosing another name is that people familiar with the concept won=E2= =80=99t >>> recognize it first-hand. >> >> I guess I can see this. I prefer "box" to "variable" fwiw. How about >> "tbox"? (The T for threadsafe or transactional or something; perhaps >> this is a bad idea.) > > My preference would be to keep the "mvars" name, however imperfect, > simply because many people in the neighboring Haskell community already > know them as "mvars". OK, I think that makes sense then (I=E2=80=99ve seen mvars mentioned in var= ious places in the meantime.) Hopefully the manual will make it clear what this is about. ;-) Ludo=E2=80=99.