On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Vincent St-Amour <stamo...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > At Mon, 8 Aug 2011 10:59:24 -0500, > Robby Findler wrote: >> FWIW, please try to avoid race conditions of the second kind. > > Some of these I can try to fix. But I don't think all intermittent > failures fit in this category.
Right. I'm saying this: if you know you have a race condition and you know how to fix it, then it is better to fix it than to use a mechanism like the one you're asking for. Robby _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev