Le 2012-01-19 à 10:11:00, IOhannes m zmoelnig a écrit :
it seems like i was myself mixing instances and threading. indeed what i
would prefer was, if i could use gensym() from another thread in a safe
way. this has nothing to do with a global hashtable (and i don't see a
reason why multiple instances should share a global hashtable)
Now that I think of it, they can't. I momentarily forgot something
obvious.
This is because Pd's symtable is like an old LISP's symtable : the
symtable isn't just a mapper of const char[] to t_symbol *, it's also
giving you access to s_thing, which is the mechanism for naming [table],
[value], [delwrite~], [receive], [send~], [catch~], and some more.
In some other systems (Smalltalk, Ruby, etc), the symtable is just a set
of permanent strings, and there are various vartables to hold the mappings
of t_symbol * to t_pd * (I'm translating this in pd terminology). Nearly
all languages have such a system because it allows them to avoid having to
turn $0-myname into 1234-myname just to be able to read a puny local
variable.
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