[plt-scheme] Idiom for suspending the top level thread

Thanks.  Cookbooked for posterity:

 
http://schemecookbook.org/Cookbook/ThreadSuspendingCurrentThread

N.

--- Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> At Tue, 13 Jun 2006 03:54:04 -0700 (PDT), Noel Welsh
> wrote:
> > What is the preferred idiom for suspending the top
> level
> > thread to stop a program exiting? 
> 
> My favorite is
>  (sync (make-semaphore))
> or, in MrEd,
>  (yield (make-semaphore))
...

Email: noelwelsh <at> yahoo <dot> com   noel <at> untyped <dot> com
AIM: noelhwelsh
Blogs: http://monospaced.blogspot.com/  http://www.untyped.com/untyping/

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com