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: [PATCH] Futures: Avoid creating the worker pool more than once Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:14:00 +0100 Message-ID: <87k3t297cn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a9uu9vpk.fsf@tines.lan> <87r4o58r0f.fsf@tines.lan> <87pq3dw35w.fsf@gnu.org> <87624mx6d7.fsf@tines.lan> 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 1354306449 18594 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2012 20:14:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:14:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 30 21:14:18 2012 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 1TeWyX-0008TK-QQ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:14:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35144 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TeWyM-0004uF-CV for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:14:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52590) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TeWyJ-0004th-DE for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:14:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TeWyI-000127-BO for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:14:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.82]:23995) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TeWyI-00011s-4x for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:14:02 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,192,1355094000"; d="scan'208";a="184044725" Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr (HELO pluto) ([80.67.176.83]) by mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA; 30 Nov 2012 21:14:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87624mx6d7.fsf@tines.lan> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:01:24 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130005 (Ma Gnus v0.5) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 10 Frimaire an 221 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=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 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 192.134.164.82 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:15285 Archived-At: Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver 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=E2=80=99re right that it=E2=80=99s fine in some cases, but in general s= ometimes works =E2=80=9Cby chance=E2=80=9D, and should be avoided as a rule of thumb. Ludo=E2=80=99.