* Tobias C Rittweiler [2010-11-24 10:40] writes:

People on macosx are regularly bitten by some arcane restrictions in e.g. opengl that requires stuff to be executed in the main thread.

Is it a too arcane use case, or do you think it warrants a new communication style that makes sure the main thread is used for the REPL?

Hard to say. I don't do this stuff. Those toolkits written in C/C++/Objective-C usually run an event loop and it's probably a better idea to send events to the UI thread. Maybe swank::*listener-eval-function* could be used for this. That function could tell the GUI toolkit to properly call a Lisp function in the UI thread.

Actually there are more uses, for example I have a script "start-swank <port>" which I'd like to die in case something goes wrong with the Slime connection rather than be stuck in the native repl.

Maybe a case for *connection-closed-hook*. Helmut