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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Concurrent MVars for Guile
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:59:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqmjmrl8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87fvtn1wv8.fsf@tines.lan

Hi!

It looks like a useful tool to me.

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.

Thanks,
Ludo’.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-14 13:59 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 [this message]
2013-09-17 20:18   ` Andy Wingo
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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