[racket] plot-frame does not wait at end of process

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Mon Mar 11 16:51:25 EDT 2013

A few minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote:
> Michael Wilber kindly sent me the link:
> 
>   http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2012-April/051485.html

(Ah, sorry, I thought that you knew where the discussion was...)


> and I think that this is not really a good argument for changing the
> default behavior. A keyword argument that says "create a new
> eventspace" seems okay, but the docs should explain that this is
> multi-threading, and if you were to invoke methods of the plot frame
> without first going to the new eventspace (via queue-callback or
> something like that), then you'll probably get bad behavior.

Sounds like exactly what I'm asking for: a sensible default that works
naively, and if the new eventspace is really useful, then do that with
a non-default keyword.

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