Yeah, that's a real one. :)

Robby

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Scott Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
> Reading a bit further in the docs, there is a bigger hole:
>
> (define (component-1 value channel)
>   (thread-send channel value))
>
> (define-values (component-2 channel)
>   (let ()
>     (define main (current-thread))
>     (define th
>       (thread (lambda () (thread-send main (thread-receive)))))
>     (values (lambda () (thread-receive)) th)))
>
>> (component-1 (lambda () "hello world") channel)
>> ((component-2))
> "hello world"
>
> On May 12, 2017, 11:05 AM -0400, Matthias Felleisen <[email protected]>,
> wrote:
>
>
> What your (cool little) program demonstrates is that *information* can flow
> from one thread to another, not *data*. You need to convince me that data
> flows and then we need to figure out how to protect/monitor this data. And
> at that point, you can possibly see lambdas flow too.
>
>
>
> On May 12, 2017, at 11:02 AM, Scott Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think the interesting distinction is that threads, regexps, ports, etc,
> are communication channels, but not for higher-order values.
>
> On May 12, 2017, 10:58 AM -0400, Scott Moore <[email protected]>,
> wrote:
>
> (define (component-1 value)
> (define t
> (thread (lambda ()
> (thread-suspend t)
> (for ([i (in-range value)])
> (thread-suspend t)))))
> t)
>
> (define (component-2 thread)
> (thread-resume thread)
> (let* ([suspend-evt (thread-suspend-evt thread)]
> [dead-evt (thread-dead-evt thread)]
> [result (sync suspend-evt dead-evt)])
> (if (eq? result dead-evt)
> 0
> (add1 (component-2 thread)))))
>
> (define t (component-1 2))
> (component-2 t)
>
> 2
>
> (define t (component-1 5))
> (component-2 t)
>
> 5
>
> On May 12, 2017, 10:46 AM -0400, Robby Findler
> <[email protected]>, wrote:
>
> I would say that the event value is the channel of communication. But,
> if this expression:
>
> (sync (thread (lambda () 3)))
>
> returned 3, then I'd say that thread itself is a channel of
> communication. But threads give themselves back to sync, not the
> values that their thunks return.
>
> Robby
>
> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Matthias Felleisen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> I tend to agree though there is some information flowing from a thread to
> its context (thread CML events). I have to think whether this is a channel
> of communication.
>
>
>
>
> On May 12, 2017, at 8:57 AM, Robby Findler <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> This perspective suggests a gap in the design in some sense, I would
> say. The PL construct cannot, on its own, guarantee that the values
> from #:authentic structs end up behaving like those kinds of values.
>
> (also: threads and regexps don't seem problematic from the contract
> perspective, but ports do, since they are a communication channel and
> the others aren't.)
>
> Robby
>
>
> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Matthew Flatt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think a better analogy is to values like #<thread>, #<input-port>, or
> #<regexp>. Although those kinds of values are implemented with structs,
> the accessor and mutator functions are not exported (and, as Scott
> says, there's no way to get the accessors and mutations by reflection),
> so there's no way to impersonate the values. In general, it's up to the
> implementation of a new kind of value to supply impersonator/chaperone
> support for those values, and implementations usually don't.
>
> At Thu, 11 May 2017 19:00:43 -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
>
>
> Oh right.
>
>
> On May 11, 2017, at 6:54 PM, Robby Findler <[email protected]
>
> wrote:
>
>
> They would be the same. We currently cannot chaperone or impersonate cons
>
> cells. We copy them.
>
>
> Robby
>
> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 5:51 PM Matthias Felleisen <[email protected]
>
> wrote:
>
>
> Yes except that you can contract cons cells. So why couldn’t you contract
>
> authentic structs then?
>
>
>
>
> On May 11, 2017, at 6:41 PM, Robby Findler <[email protected]
>
> wrote:
>
>
> Indeed: if we did that, then these structs would be much like cons
> cells currently are.
>
> Robby
>
>
> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Robby Findler
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> What if #:authentic (or whatever) were only allowed on immutable
> objects and we allowed them to be copied? Then contracts could protect
> them.
>
> Robby
>
>
> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Matthias Felleisen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> @ Christos
>
> #:authentic explicitly introduces a channel of communication that it is
>
> not protectable by contracts. This makes Racket’s contract system explicitly
> incomplete. It might have been incomplete in the past for other reasons.
>
>
> If the name isn’t fixed, #:no-proxy-allowed would be my preference.
>
> — Matthias
>
>
>
>
>
> On May 11, 2017, at 12:48 PM, Scott Moore <[email protected]
>
> wrote:
>
>
> I agree that generally don't want performance declarations that
> interfere with reasonable interposition. The good uses of `#:authentic`
> would be in places where the struct representation of a value is not
> exposed or where the values themselves are not exposed (so any
> interposition means being on the "inside" where you can change the
> code, anyway).
>
>
> Yes, I agree with this. I think as far as how this changes Racket’s
>
> data abstraction model, the key is “where the values themselves are not
> exposed.”
>
> #:authentic only has an interesting effect in the other case, where
>
> “outside” code gets its hands on a value of the struct type. Previously, I
> could write a program that used inspectors to impersonate this value
> regardless of the “inside” code’s intent. Now that would no longer be
> possible.
>
>
> I doubt there is much code that currently relies on being able to do
>
> this and so I would say go ahead. (Perhaps DrRacket or other debugging
> tools?)
>
>
> On the other hand, Spencer already asked if this would be something the
>
> optimization coach would recommend. I think it would be important for the
> documentation of #:authentic or the implementation of such a coach to stress
> the importance of the rules of thumb you just laid out.
>
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