From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Concurrent MVars for Guile
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 22:18:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2o7ryku.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wqmjmrl8.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:59:47 +0200")
On Sat 14 Sep 2013 15:59, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> It looks like a useful tool to me.
FWIW I totally agree!
> I don’t like the name “mvar” (“monadic variable”, I guess). Perhaps
> “synchronized box”, or “transactional variable”, or...? The downside of
> choosing another name is that people familiar with the concept won’t
> 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.)
Dunno :)
Andy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-17 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-02 7:55 Concurrent MVars for Guile Mark H Weaver
2013-09-03 11:55 ` Mark H Weaver
[not found] ` <CAGua6m3o_NexANbGuDYd5_rbPQqsbXkK504ONaFE7PGdQd98og@mail.gmail.com>
2013-09-04 6:27 ` Fwd: " Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2013-09-05 2:10 ` David Thompson
2013-09-05 2:53 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-09-14 13:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-17 20:18 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2014-01-16 0:47 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-16 13:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-17 6:33 ` Mateusz Kowalczyk
2014-01-17 19:31 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-18 0:46 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-18 1:05 ` Mateusz Kowalczyk
2014-01-21 5:38 ` Mark H Weaver
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