On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:40:49 +0100 Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciarip...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Matthew Mondor > <mm_li...@pulsar-zone.net>wrote: > > > If you however want to create them from a thread using > > defparameter/defvar, I'd have to check but my guess is that ECL uses > > the necessary locks internally for its own package/symbol management. > > My experience is with special variables to be created before the other > > threads are launched. > > > > One thing that can be easily implemented, but which is currently > deactivated, would be to copy all the special variable bindings from the > parent thread, so that one may do > > (let ((variable value)) > (declare (special variable)) > ... launch process ...) > > and the process starts with an outer binding of VARIABLE. I never > implemented it because I am not sure what people are used to in the Lisp > world. How would process-wide (shared with all threads) bindings be done if all special variables were automatically locally bound in new threads? Perhaps that I misunderstood, though. Thanks, -- Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and much more. Get web development skills now with LearnDevNow - 350+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122812 _______________________________________________ Ecls-list mailing list Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list
