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Renaming of :shared
From:
Artur Bergman
Date:
June 24, 2001 13:18
Subject:
Renaming of :shared
Message ID:
B75C1794.19B4%artur@contiller.se
I would like to suggest again that we rename : shared
It is missnamed since the variable isn't a shared variable between threads,
it is a read only shared variable between threads.
It should realy say : shared : readonly;
I am suggesting we name it static.
Do we realy want to explain over and over again that shared means it becomes
readonly, AND readonly AFTER the fork/new thread. That is a very obfuscated
behaviour.
Maybe it would be better to just have a :readonly; that makes it readonly on
first assigment and then is implicitly shared between threads? And it makes
it possible for a user to create something readonly?
Artur
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Renaming of :shared
by Artur Bergman