30 Nov
2004
30 Nov
'04
11:16 a.m.
Adrian Hey wrote:
The issue is *modularity*. Without top level TWIs there are certain
safety guarantees that I cannot make from within my module. Instead I have to "beg" for safe use from outside my module. Begging a hypothetical "operating system" doesn't really help much.
And I am arguing that the library is not the appropriate enitity to enforce this uniqueness, and that should I have multiple of these 'unique' resources available, I should be able to initialise the library in two contexts at once. It seems a bad assumtion to assume that _all_ systems will only have one of these whatevers. Keean.