[Gardeners] Shared State Concurrency specification.

[Marco Monteiro]

Brad Beveridge wrote:
> 1) why is there THREAD.NAME, this looks like it isn't consistant with
> the rest of the function names.  The . is what I'm not liking.

I think that the '.' is used enough in CL and I'm trying to promote it. 
Probably I'll change it to a '-' later.

> 2) would it be more flexible to pass keyword arguments to the thread
> function that is require in SPAWN-THREAD?

If you are referring to the &ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS, it is for implementation 
specific parameters to SPAWN-THREAD.

> 
> It looks good.  As part of the implementation I think there ought to
> be a test suite that can test the conformance of a Lisp
> implementation.  As discussed in this thread, it is probably important
> that global/special variables work the same way in all Lisps - or
> provide a wrapping mechanism to portable access thread shared
> variables.

Of course. This must be standard.

> 
> Cheers
> Brad
> 

Marco