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Re: [Chicken-users] synch egg renaming
From: |
Dan |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-users] synch egg renaming |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:34:51 -0700 (PDT) |
I'm not too fond of the new names. IIRC, x/y in scheme
abbreviates x-with-y, nothing more and nothing less.
It's an unwritten convention. In this context,
call-with/synch means call-with-with-synch.
-- Dan
--- Kon Lovett <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Group,
>
> I wish to rename the macros in the synch egg. The
> existing names are
> little confusing IMO.
>
> call/synch => call-with/synch
> apply/synch => call/synch
> apply-with/synch => apply/synch
>
> apply-with/synch will now use the mutex specific as
> the 1st argument.
>
> Added synch-with which binds a local variable to the
> mutex specific.
>
> So *-with means "with mutex specific".
>
> Umm, should the whole thing just be renamed
> sync.egg, deprecating the
> original?
>
> Best Wishes,
> Kon
>
>
>
>
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