JEP draft: Scope Locals

[Andrew Haley]

On 5/14/21 3:45 PM, Brian Goetz wrote:
> Where I think the JEP draft (the exposition, not the feature design) 
> could be improved is to make the relationship to TL more clear.  IMO, 
> this is a "more modern" TL design; it addresses the same primary use 
> cases, without the unconstrained mutability of TLs.  The safety that 
> comes from the immutability enables some new concurrent patterns (e.g., 
> structured concurrency) and some nice optimizations.

Thank you, that's a nice summary. I was trying to describe scope locals
in a stand-alone way, but everything that a scope local can do can also
be done by a TL, albeit with some clumsiness. I should be more explicit
about that.

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