<div dir="ltr">FWIW, the OP (of the linked thread) actually wanted multi-threading so, IMO, it makes sense to make them actually explicitly ask for it in the program.<div><br></div><div>Robby</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Eli Barzilay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eli@barzilay.org" target="_blank">eli@barzilay.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="im">A few minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote:<br> </div><div class="im">> Michael Wilber kindly sent me the link:<br> ><br> > <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2012-April/051485.html" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2012-April/051485.html</a><br> <br> </div>(Ah, sorry, I thought that you knew where the discussion was...)<br> <div class="im"><br> <br> > and I think that this is not really a good argument for changing the<br> > default behavior. A keyword argument that says "create a new<br> > eventspace" seems okay, but the docs should explain that this is<br> > multi-threading, and if you were to invoke methods of the plot frame<br> > without first going to the new eventspace (via queue-callback or<br> > something like that), then you'll probably get bad behavior.<br> <br> </div>Sounds like exactly what I'm asking for: a sensible default that works<br> naively, and if the new eventspace is really useful, then do that with<br> a non-default keyword.<br> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br> --<br> ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay:<br> <a href="http://barzilay.org/" target="_blank">http://barzilay.org/</a> Maze is Life!<br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>