| 22:01 | <Steve Hicks> | Hoping we can get this discussion going again now that plenary is over... I was talking with a colleague about our tracing use case and stumbled on a question about the "empty context". In particular, our current spec is that we don't allow creating a new root trace if there's already an open trace in the current context. We can obviously change that restriction, but it may at least hint at a use case where you're in a context and might actually want to run a subtask in an empty context - but if everything always tries as hard as possible to avoid running callbacks in the empty context and if you don't happen to have taken a snapshot before setting any variables, then it may be very difficult to access. It's not clear to me whether that's a bug or a feature. |