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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:57:13 -0500
From: "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] conditions in alts
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On Dec 14, 2007 12:37 PM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> If you look at how I used it the one time it was in the
> slides, the condition couldn't change while the alt was
> blocked -- it involved only local variables.  In fact if
> you have arranged things so that there are no shared
> mutable variables then the condition can't possibly
> change during the alt.  So this is reasonable.

OK, that makes sense now.  Thanks.

--Joel