From: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@...>
Date: 2012-10-26T15:41:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:48300] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #7097] Thread locals don't work inside Enumerator

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 02:40:53PM +0900, SASADA Koichi wrote:
> I don't have any objection.
> 
> I recommend that Thread#[] should be reference to
> Thread#thread_variable_get, and so on.

The documentation I added for Thread#thread_variable_get does reference
Thread#[], and each method makes it clear that it's for thread locals
(not fiber locals).

> ----
> 
> Should we add the following new methods to clarify thread local and
> fiber local?
> 
> Thread#fiber_variable_get <= alias of Thread#[]
> Thread#fiber_variable_set <= alias of Thread#[]=
> Thread#fiber_variable?
> Thread#fiber_variables

I think these aliases would make it clear that we're dealing with Fiber
locals.  I don't have a strong opinion though.

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