[racket] Problem passing a reference

> Is there actually a reason to use 'set!'?


There is a period of time between creating the message and actually
processing the message. Other events may cause the message to be abandoned.
Therefore I think the set! is required, but maybe there's a better solution.

Also, it's suspicious that your 'queue-message' method takes an 'event'
> argument but then refers to the 'the-event' field.
>

They are distinct. Sorry for the mislead, I should have used a better name
in my edits for email.


> If none of that works and you really have to use 'set!', then the solution
> is to save the value to a local variable that doesn't get mutated and have
> the callback refer to that instead of the field:
>
> (define/private (queue-message receiver ....)
>   ....
>   (let ([event-to-handle the-event])
>     (set! the-event #f)
>     (queue-callback
>      (lambda () (send the-handler handle-event event-to-handle))
>      #t))
>   ....)
>
>
Given the (perhaps incorrect?) requirement to use set!, this is exactly
what I need, thanks.

Cheers,

Kieron.
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