I've recently started running long calculations in one Mathematica kernel while I continue to work in another kernel. I thought this was safe, but yesterday I was running THIS CODE in which a ListPlot is dynamically updated as new points are calculated and added to an array I (foolishly) named a.
Dynamic[ListPlot[a, DataRange -> {-delta, delta}], TrackedSymbols :> {a}]
Then I (foolishly) created a variable a in my OTHER kernel, and down the tubes everything went. The ListPlot displayed in my first kernel vanished, along with all the points I'd painstakingly calculated and stored in a.
It hadn't occurred to me that I couldn't have same-named variables in different kernels, but now I know better. Is this only a problem when there's a dynamic object in one kernel? Are there other pitfalls we should be aware of?
