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From: rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell)
Subject: speculating, again
Message-ID: <ROCKWELL.92Apr23234753@socrates.umd.edu>
Sender: rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell)
Organization: Traveller
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1992 04:47:53 GMT
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I just happened to notice something that has been nagging at my
conciousness for the past few days:

The proposed 'locale' feature, for at least some operating systems,
could provide a mechanism similar to other APLs' shared variables.

Doing this right might take a lot of work -- so maybe the initial
implementations will only work correctly if a locale is exclusive
property of only one task at a time.  Depends on the OS, mostly.

But I think this is a fun idea...

-- 
Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell                   <rockwell@socrates.umd.edu>
