#lang racket (require math/base) ;; for random number generation ;; author: Ibrahim Mkusa ;; about: print and read concurrently ;; create custodian for managing all resources ;; so we can shutdown everything at once (define guard (make-custodian (current-custodian))) (current-custodian guard) ;; reads values continously from stdin and redisplays them (define (read-loop) (display (read-line)) (display "\n") (read-loop) ) (define input-prompt "input: ") (define output-prompt "output: ") ;; prompt for username and bind to a variable username (display "What's your name?\n") (define username (read-line)) (define usernamei (string-append username ": ")) ;; make username appear nicer in a prompt (define fair (make-semaphore 1)) ;; intelligent read, quits when user types in "quit" (define (read-loop-i) (semaphore-wait fair) (display usernamei) (define input (read-line)) ;; do something over here with input maybe send it out ;; Tests input if its a quit then kills all threads ;; An if would be better here tbh (cond ((string=? input "quit") (begin (kill-thread a) (kill-thread t)))) (display (string-append output-prompt input "\n")) (semaphore-post fair) (read-loop-i) ) ;; print hello world continously ;; "(hello-world)" can be executed as part of background thread ;; that prints in the event there is something in the input port (define (hello-world) (sleep (random-integer 0 60)) ;; sleep between 0 and 60 seconds to simulate coms ;; with server (semaphore-wait fair) (display "\nHello, World!\n") (semaphore-post fair) (hello-world)) (define t (thread (lambda () (read-loop-i)))) (define a (thread (lambda () (hello-world)))) (thread-wait t) ;; returns prompt back to drracket ;; below doesn't execute ; (sleep 10) ; (kill-thread t) ; (define a (thread (display "hello world!\n"))) ; (display "John: hello soso\n") ; (display "Emmanuel: cumbaya!!!!\n")