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Simon Wright wrote:
> What sort of multi-tasking support would _you_ like, then?

People usually want the wrong sort. If someone needs to access
a container simultaneously from multiple tasks, then they should
privide the synchronization, not the container. Only if the
containers share some internal object do they themselves need to
protect it against concurrent access.