JEP draft: Scope Locals

[Andrew Haley]

On 5/15/21 6:50 PM, Peter Levart wrote:
> What if I wanted to create and start a thread that would be "pristine" - 
> not have any ScopeLocal value bound? Is this intentionally not allowed 
> in order to make sure that inheritable ScopeLocal(s) can't be cleared by 
> code that has no access to ScopeLocal instance(s)?

That one is about to be changed by a revision to the JEP. There clearly
is a need to control whether a newly-created thread inherits scope locals
or not. For instance, an Executor might lazily create worker threads, and
we don't want them to inherit scope locals from the thread that was
running.

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