Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Can we use namespace variables to avoid upvar?

Collapse
6: Re: Can we use namespace variables to avoid upvar? (response to 1)
Posted by Jon Griffin on 04/05/04 11:08 PM
Dave,
That is not true, I had a long exchange with the AOLServer team about this and the consensus was that they don't really see a need to initialize reused threads.
SO yes the problem is still there. This only affects vars not namespaces in general.
Still a big minus in that we could get rid of passing vars explicitly if it was working correctly. And, yes tcllib will not work correctly either.
Collapse
7: Re: Can we use namespace variables to avoid upvar? (response to 6)
Posted by Tilmann Singer on 04/06/04 02:59 AM
Indeed, the following script yields 'variable exists' after a few reloads on aolserver 4:

set s ""
if { [info exists ::mytest::some_var] } {
    set s "VARIABLE EXISTS!"
}
namespace eval ::mytest {
    variable some_var
    set some_var "foo"
}
append s "some_var: $::mytest::some_var"
doc_return 200 text/plain $s

Jon, was that long exchange you mention on the aolserver list?