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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Futures: Avoid creating the worker pool more than once
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:14:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3t297cn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87624mx6d7.fsf@tines.lan> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:01:24 -0500")

Hi Mark,

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> Why is this a problem?  I think circular dependencies are fine as long
> as there is not a cycle composed entirely of syntactic keyword
> dependencies.

You’re right that it’s fine in some cases, but in general sometimes
works “by chance”, and should be avoided as a rule of thumb.

Ludo’.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-30 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-06 23:07 [PATCH] Futures: Avoid creating the worker pool more than once Mark H Weaver
2012-11-07 13:46 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-11-07 14:14   ` Daniel Hartwig
2012-11-16 23:15   ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-30 19:01     ` Mark H Weaver
2012-11-30 20:14       ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2012-11-08 19:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-10  3:13   ` Mark H Weaver
2012-11-10 13:53     ` Ludovic Courtès

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