Re: [q-lang-users] RFC: Conditional syntax

[Tim H. <q...@st...>]

Albert Graef <Dr....@t-...> writes:

> John Cowan wrote:
> > Umm, is it out of the question to change "cond" in clib to "condition"?
> 
> Well, if I change that, I'll have to change sem to semaphore, too, for
> consistency, and maybe some other pthread ops. Actually that's not a bad
> idea. But it will break most of the multimedia examples and maybe other
> stuff in the multimedia library, so all of this would have to be fixed.
> :(
> 
> 
> I'm willing to take the plunge, though. So does anyone else use those
> thread operations?

AFAIK I make very limited use of threading only in my wittering/index.q:

 | //How to kill a thread
 | terminate T = cancel T if active T;
 |             = result T otherwise;
 | 
 | main = TP || insertarticle || sleep 3 || terminate TP || writes output 
 |         if    [snip]
 |         where TP=thread ping;

This code is mostly inactive & bugged atm anyway and doesn't mention `sem'
or anything either, so don't worry about me! :)

~Tim
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