Re: [Chicken-users] ssax egg

[Bruce Butterfield]

Yes, I think that a library should be by default thread-safe unless 
marked otherwise in an obvious way. This has bitten me more than once 
since I write a lot of threaded code.

felix wrote:
> Well, not really clever, but you can check the list in the variable 
> ##sys#features
> for containing #:srfi-18. If that is the case, then you are either 
> running in the
> interpreter, or in compiled code that uses the SRFI-18 features, and as 
> such is likely
> to use threading. But that does of course not necessarily mean SSAX has 
> to be
> reentrant. Perhaps a runtime-switch? (I would prefer the default to be 
> thread-safe,
> though).
>
>
> cheers,
> felix

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