[External] : Re: JEP draft: Scope Locals

[Brian Goetz]

>     Let's back up a lot of steps; you're deep in proposing a solution
>     when you've not even explained what problem you think you're
>     solving.  So control question, which I hope will start to expose
>     the assumptions:
>
>        Why do you think its important to know that a snapshot of a
>     variable has occurred?
>
>
> From the JEP:
> "In addition, a |Snapshot()| operation that captures the current set 
> of inheritable scope locals is provided. This allows context 
> information to be shared with asynchronous computations."
>
> As the provider of the scoped variable, I'd certainly like to know 
> that my scoped variable is being passed into a new scope.

Let's try again: why is that important?   What decisions would you make 
differently if you had this information?  What benefit would come from 
those decisions?