[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] SRFI-39 should be made an R6RS library

From: <bear>
Date: Mon Feb 12 13:45:03 2007

On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Michael Sperber wrote:

> Anyway, the behavior of Chez's thread parameters isn't covered by what
> I meant as "hideous". However, even Chez's thread parameters (which
> behave the same as PLT Scheme's parameters, I believe) are problematic
> when threads and continuations interact. Things are simpler when
> dynamic binding and (possibly thread-local) mutation are separate
> mechanisms.

I think that the interaction of threads and continuations is *Necessarily*
hideous, especially in the presence of mutation. It may be a mistake for
the same language to even have both. At the very least one ought to be
well-defined in terms of the other.

                                Bear
Received on Mon Feb 12 2007 - 13:44:39 UTC