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by daemonize 4380 days ago
Even in a multiple-thread scenario?
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twic 4380 days ago
As an aside, one of the really interesting ideas that's bubbling up from Rust is that it's not mutable state that's a problem, it's shared mutable state, and that you can make it safe by removing the sharing, rather than removing the mutability:

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2014/05/13/focu...

I have no idea if this is true, but it's going to be really interesting to see that idea tried.

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skybrian 4380 days ago
If it doesn't leak out of the function (though a closure or a pointer), how can another thread see it? It's only on one stack.
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