[racket-dev] DrDr Feature Request

From: Vincent St-Amour (stamourv at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 8 12:09:02 EDT 2011

At Mon, 8 Aug 2011 11:06:30 -0500,
Robby Findler wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Vincent St-Amour <stamourv at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> > At Mon, 8 Aug 2011 10:59:24 -0500,
> > Robby Findler wrote:
> >> FWIW, please try to avoid race conditions of the second kind.
> >
> > Some of these I can try to fix. But I don't think all intermittent
> > failures fit in this category.
> 
> Right. I'm saying this: if you know you have a race condition and you
> know how to fix it, then it is better to fix it than to use a
> mechanism like the one you're asking for.

I agree.

Vincent


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