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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH][5] Fix hanging srfi-18 egg tests due to sc
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Evan Hanson |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH][5] Fix hanging srfi-18 egg tests due to scheduler bug |
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Mon, 14 Sep 2015 18:50:06 +1200 |
Hi Peter,
Nice catch.
On 2015-09-13 18:27, Peter Bex wrote:
> Interestingly, because of the way the SRFI-18 egg is coded, it should
> now be possible to pass _any_ type of number as a timeout value! That
> means you can now do (thread-sleep! 1/16), for example. If you pass
> in a complex number, you'll just get an error about not being able to
> compare complex numbers. We could perhaps improve that by changing the
> srfi-18 egg's compute-time-limit procedure to check that it receives a
> real number rather than an arbitrary number.
Cool! That's a nice side effect indeed, and good idea about the egg. The
srfi-18 spec agrees, as well, so I've gone ahead and done that.
Evan