On Thu, 19 Sep 2024, at 17:33, Taylan Kammer wrote: > On > If I'm not mistaken: Using a local variable is often more efficient > than using a global variable, so if you needed to micro-optimize code > for maximum efficiency, you would want to do this > There's one potential issue with using parameters like this: Their > value is thread-local. If you change a parameter's value from one > thread, with the setting syntax above (calling it on a value), it will > never become visible to other threads that are currently executing.
You could implement a macro with boxes and identifier macros that lets you define "non-declarative" variables that hides the box operations from the users. That should be simple, but might make some issues downstream if they start doing macro voodoo.
