On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 04:21:11PM -0700, Brandon Williams wrote:
> This is still very much in a WIP state, though it does pass all tests.  What
> I'm hoping for here is to get a discussion started about the feasibility of a
> change like this and hopefully to get the ball rolling.  Is this a direction we
> want to move in?  Is it worth the pain?

I haven't spent a lot of time looking at the patches, but I like this
idea.  I expect that moving in this direction will help us avoid a lot
of globals and move us in a direction of more re-entrant code.  I can
think of a lot of things that could really benefit from this.
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