JEP draft: Scope Locals

[Andrew Haley]

On 5/19/21 5:55 PM, Peter Levart wrote:
> In other words, non-inheritable bindings are 
> never transferred from thread to thread automatically or by 
> snapshot/runWithSnapshot. I can see that snapshot/runWithSnapshot was 
> meant as a mechanism to "simulate" inheritance of bindings when 
> execution is transferred from one thread to another which is not a newly 
> started child thread.

Yes. However, this part of the draft proposal is undergoing some revision,
and it looks like it will make more sense to control inheritance in a
different way, one that will permit more flexible control over what
gets inherited and when.

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