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diff --git a/docs/SPEC.md b/docs/SPEC.md index a4f8397..7dd1247 100644 --- a/docs/SPEC.md +++ b/docs/SPEC.md @@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ hold { ``` `hold` followed by `{` at the top level starts a hold block; elsewhere `hold` and `shared` are ordinary names. a hold block contains shared variable declarations, functions, and any other top-level items. hold blocks don't nest (error: hold blocks don't nest). each block has a rank, its position among the unit's hold blocks, from 1. -5.16.2 a shared variable is a global with one value for the whole program, seen by every actor (docs/ACTOR.md); every other global is each actor's own copy. its type is a number type or a fixed array of one. a pointer, string, struct, growable array or function type is error: x: is shared, so it holds numbers: no pointers, strings or structs (each actor has its own heap). an initializer is a constant, as for any global. +5.16.2 a shared variable is a global with one value for the whole program, seen by every actor (docs/ACTOR.md); every other global is each actor's own copy. its type is a number type or a fixed array of one. a pointer, string, struct, growable array or function type is error: x: is shared, so it holds numbers: no pointers, strings or structs (each worker has its own heap). an initializer is a constant, as for any global. 5.16.3 only the functions written in the block can name its shared variables. a use anywhere else, including in another hold block, is error: x: is shared in a hold block; only the functions written inside that block can use it (they hold its lock). a use in a closure, even one written inside the block, is error: x: is shared; a closure can't use it, because it may run after the hold block's lock is released. a function of a hold block can't be `o3` (error: f: is in a hold block and can't be o3). |