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: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:59:47 +0200 Message-ID: <87wqmjmrl8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87fvtn1wv8.fsf@tines.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1379167216 3878 80.91.229.3 (14 Sep 2013 14:00:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:00:16 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 14 16:00:19 2013 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 1VKqOY-00072u-AV for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Sep 2013 16:00:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53454 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKqOX-0005vm-PR for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Sep 2013 10:00:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34229) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKqOM-0005tL-V4 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Sep 2013 10:00:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKqOF-0001SG-LD for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Sep 2013 10:00:06 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42004) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKqOF-0001SC-Ea for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Sep 2013 09:59:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VKqOD-0006aI-TF for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:59:57 +0200 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:59:57 +0200 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:59:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 28 Fructidor 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 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:m4Cc+Xq2qD6z0hWsvpp/qxtzwTM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:16635 Archived-At: 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’.