Thanks for all the great links and ideas you have all posted, now I have plenty of reading and thinking to do!
> I am curious about what you mean by 'thread safety'. Perhaps "thread safety" is the wrong term, but what I meant was the limitations dynamic binding introduces around thread dispatching, which Stuart Sierra explains in this blog post<http://stuartsierra.com/2013/03/29/perils-of-dynamic-scope> . Cheers, James On Monday, January 13, 2014 7:10:38 PM UTC+1, Stefan Kanev wrote: > > On 13/01/14, James Trunk wrote: > > The downsides to dynamic vars seem to be: hiddenness, thread safety, and > > more complex tests (binding before each test). > > I am curious about what you mean by 'thread safety'. As far as I know, > dynamic variables are thread-local, which means that they are > thread-safe, at least to some extend. I assume you mean something > specific? > > -- > Stefan Kanev ¦ @skanev ¦ http://skanev.com/ > If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small > number > of ways. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
