[Chicken-users] Safe interrupt handlers?

An interrupt handler written in Chicken Scheme probably can't do a lot without knocking over a heap of dominoes. Nevertheless, would a simple lambda that only changes a top level flag variable be stable enough to be useful? This is often all that posix interrupt handlers written in C do anyway.

Re: [Chicken-users] Safe interrupt handlers?

Tony Sidaway scripsit: An interrupt handler written in Chicken Scheme probably can't do a lot without knocking over a heap of dominoes. Nevertheless, would a simple lambda that only changes a top level flag variable be stable enough to be useful? This is often all that posix interrupt

Re: [Chicken-users] Safe interrupt handlers?

On Feb 26, 2007, at 8:02 AM, John Cowan wrote: Tony Sidaway scripsit: An interrupt handler written in Chicken Scheme probably can't do a lot without knocking over a heap of dominoes. Nevertheless, would a simple lambda that only changes a top level flag variable be stable enough to be