[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] SRFI-39 should be made an R6RS library

[bear]

On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Michael Sperber wrote:

> Anyway, the behavior of Chez's thread parameters isn't covered by what
> I meant as "hideous".  However, even Chez's thread parameters (which
> behave the same as PLT Scheme's parameters, I believe) are problematic
> when threads and continuations interact.  Things are simpler when
> dynamic binding and (possibly thread-local) mutation are separate
> mechanisms.

I think that the interaction of threads and continuations is *Necessarily*
hideous, especially in the presence of mutation.  It may be a mistake for
the same language to even have both.  At the very least one ought to be
well-defined in terms of the other.

				Bear