Re: [Visualpython-users] fix/hack for hanging program

[Fred Y. <fr...@on...>]

David,

Thank you for considering this problem.  I look forward to getting an
updated VPython that fixes the problem without requiring my hack.

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:52:04AM -0500, David Scherer wrote:
> This is fairly embarrassing, and also rather puzzling - why is it working
> for everyone except Fred?

Such situations no longer surprise me.  ;-)

> Maybe you are unaware of the syntactic trick being used to implement the
> locks?  Each lock is removed when it goes out of scope (roughly, when you
> hit a } in the code ):

I thought that might be the case, but I wasn't sure if C++ guaranteed
that behavior -- calling the destructor at exactly the end of the
block -- and I didn't completely trust the compiler in any case.

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