Re: [Chicken-hackers] Would SRFI-157 (pre)support worth a consideration?

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 09:33:02PM +0200, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> with Chicken 5 being about to be released I know there is no adding
> features now.
> 
> That's why I hesitate to post at all.  At the other hand I'd guess it
> might be easier to now add half the feature I'd desire than later deal
> with a binary incompatible change.
>
> Maybe it's worth to consider adding this one more "thread-local
> mutable cell" in C5 threads now.  To make room for srfi-157 support in
> C5.1 or so.

I don't quite see why this should be required as part of 5.0; AFAIK
thread local mutable cells would be a completely orthogonal new feature
that could be added later.

And it's nontrivial so not something to be adding at the RC stage.

Cheers,
Peter

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