Re: makeLazySlot: "nonlocal exit by lazy slot's maker"

On Jan 7, 2011, at 8:20, Thomas Leonard wrote:

> makeLazySlot checks that it was successful by checking that the result
> is resolved. This doesn't work if the maker function returns a  
> promise.
>
> Here's a patch:
>
> http://gitorious.org/~tal-itinnov/repo-roscidus/it-innovation/commit/63aa9352a6b4bad1878fa75f1f2d563b3aeac84c

Eyeballed, seems OK to commit.

I would recommend either adding a note to require(maker != null) that  
this is an implementation accident and not a deliberate element of the  
interface, or using a private pumpkin (def pumpkin {}; ... maker :=  
pumpkin).

-- 
Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>