Re: [Chicken-users] egg announcement: remote-repl

[Tobia Conforto]

Alaric Snell-Pym wrote:
> Normal production configuration changes should probably be handled  
> in a server system by instructing the master thread to set new  
> values into its parameters, which *new session threads* would then  
> inherit from it, so that existing session threads keep the old values


This is sound advice.


Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote:
> Since both designs appear useful to me (I forgot about the details  
> of the 3rd), I'd rather support all of them for the user to choose  
> appropriately.

I agree that in your case half-shared parameters (which are thread- 
local only when parameterize'd) are by far the easiest solution, but  
can't you just implement them on top of Chicken's non-shared  
parameters and override make-parameter and parameterize?  You could  
compile this alternate implementation as a library and load it before  
the rest of your code, even publish it as an egg.  What's the problem?

I hope I'm not beating a dead horse ;-)


Tobia