[m-dev.] Suggest s/mutvar/mvar/ in extras/concurrency

[Fergus Henderson]

On 24-May-2001, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> The name `mutvar' is exported from both extras/concurrency/mutvar.m
> and library/store.m.
> 
> Although the types involved have different arities, I think the
> clash is unfortunate.  How hard would it be to change the
> extras module and type name to just `mvar' in line with its
> Haskell origins?  If the change t'were done, when t'is done,
> t'were best done quickly :)

I agree that this change is a good idea.

For backwards compatibility, we could keep the old name around for a
couple of releases, with the relevant predicates declared `pragma obsolete'.

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