Hi,my error was that the "quote" was actually a different unicode char (from the copy/paste), therefore gsi did not understand it as a quoted symbol but as an unquoted (undefined) symbol.And I got a weird error message because of the code point of that char was written right in it. And I have to admit it, I had no clue about what was occurring.I understand that no thread could return anything that would be eq? with (let ((unique (list 'unique))). But :a) Is there anything more simple than using list?
b) Would it be a good idea to have one (or more) reserved symbol (or keyword) in Gambit like None, Nothing, Fail, etc. to handle that kind of problem. I am asking this question because a similar problem arises with hash table or similar dictionary like structures. Most of the time #f or '() work except when storing booleans or lists.
Any thoughts?Denis
From: mikael.rcv@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 14:33:44 +0200
Subject: Re: [gambit-list] example from the doc
To: denis.prog@hotmail.com; gambit-list@iro.umontreal.caDenis, the unique variable is for it to work even if the thread ended its execution by returning a symbol by the name unique - it interprets fine, what's your err?2014-05-12 2:38 GMT+02:00 Denis Fourt <denis.prog@hotmail.com>:Hi,In Gambit 4.7.2 documentation, in the section dedicated to threads, there is the following code example :(define thread-alive? (let ((unique (list ’unique)))(lambda (thread) ; Note: this procedure raises an exception if ; the thread terminated abnormally. (eq? (thread-join! thread 0 unique) unique))))This code is actually incorrect (according to gsi), the let is rejected. I believe that :(define thread-alive?
(lambda (thread)
(eq? (thread-join! thread 0 'unique) 'unique)))should be enough (though I do not know what happens if the thread returns nothing). I would like to know if there was some precise reason behind this let construction.Thanks,Denis
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