[gambit-list] How thread-mailbox-extract-without-rewind
    Vok Vojwo 
    ceving at gmail.com
       
    Fri Oct 28 05:08:50 EDT 2011
    
    
  
2011/10/28 Adrien Piérard <pierarda at iro.umontreal.ca>:
>
> (let ((message (thread-receive)))
>  (if (need-to-unread? message)
>    (thread-send (current-thread) message))) ;; back in da game \o/
>
Doing that would break the message tupples.
Example inbox:
a1 a2 b1 c1 b2 a3 c2 b3 c3
1. take a1, a-slot is empty, next
2. take a2, a-slot is full, unread by sending to thread
After that the inbox contains:
b1 c1  b2 a3 c2 b3 c3 a2
Now a2 comes after a3 and the second message tuppel would be (b2, a3, c2).
The position in the inbox must be preserved. This is only possible by
a drop after peek or an unread at the original position.
    
    
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