From: timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)
Date: 2005-04-16T13:54:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Weekly News 4th - 10th April 2005

In article <KUt6e.962314$6l.177609@pd7tw2no>, Martin DeMello wrote:
>Tim Sutherland <timsuth@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>> 
>>   Detecting thread exit immediately
>>   ---------------------------------
>> 
>>    Martin DeMello was busy developing his fxirb application (a GUI wrapper
>>    around IRB), and had some code that started a Thread whenever it needed to
>>    launch an IRB session. How could he tell as soon as the Thread had ended?
>> 
>>    "Is there any way I can have FXIrb pass in `self' to the thread so that it
>>    can call methods on it?"
>> 
>>    He later reported that the helpful people in the #ruby-lang IRC channel
>>    had provided him with the solution,
>> 
>>  @irb = Thread.new(self) {
>>    ....
>>    self.quit_method
>>  }
>
>My bad - I mixed the two methods up when posting:
>
>@irb = Thread.new {
>  ...
>  self.quit_method # using the fact that the block is a closure with
>                   # self in scope
>}
>
>and
>
>@irb = Thread.new(self) {|obj|
>  ...
>  obj.quit_method # explicitly passing in self as a parameter
>}

Thanks, I've updated the website with the the first version.