Depending on what you're doing, a nack guard evt might be helpful. It lets
do a form of chaining evts together. It definitely isn't and in the sense
you describe but it is easy to overlook.

Robby

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 4:50 PM Matthew Flatt <[email protected]> wrote:

> At Mon, 15 Mar 2021 13:38:46 -0700 (PDT), Greg Rosenblatt wrote:
> > Is there a corresponding event for a logical conjunction (I was looking
> for
> > something like `all-evt` or `every-evt`), which requires that all of its
> > members be ready for synchronization at the same time?
>
> No. (Although `replavce-evt` is a weak kind of "and", it's not what
> you're looking for.)
>
> > If not, is there a fundamental barrier to its implementation with the
> > ConcurrentML approach?
>
> Yes, at least in the sense that it's not possible to implement N-way
> rendezvous given only CML's rendezvous.
>
> So, N-way rendezvous would have to be implemented in the core. I'm
> certain that some languages have implemented that, but I have forgotten
> the examples.
>
> > Related to this, I've been reading "Kill-Safe Synchronization
> Abstractions"
> > (https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/pldi04-ff.pdf), and found it
> > notable that the swap channel couldn't be implemented in a way that was
> > both kill-safe and break-safe (not ruining `sync/enable-break`'s
> > exclusive-or guarantee).  I'm wondering if both forms of safety could be
> > achieved by using a hypothetical `all-evt` that behaves as I've
> described.
>
> Probably so. The citation of [17] in that part of the paper is meant to
> allude to the CML-style rendezvous versus N-way rendezvous constraint.
>
>
> Matthew
>
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