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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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