[plt-scheme] Re: IPC in PLT Scheme

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 patrickdlogan at attbi.com wrote:

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> > I am working on a project which requires some communication between
> > two processes both of which I was hoping could be coded in
> > Scheme. This communication follows a producer/consumer pattern.
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> > I would like for the producer to be able to operate even when a
> > consumer is not running (presumably by queing output which would be
> > retrieved later by the consumer).
>
> > Do you guys have any suggestions on how to achieve this?

You might want to look at Matthew's paper

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/icfp99-ffkf.pdf

You will have to run the _processes_ on top of a single instance of
drsheme though, but you can start and stop either one.

Bruce Hauman