From: Garth Williams <garth@...>
Date: 2006-01-01T08:42:46+09:00
Subject: Why does this work?

Hi,

thread = Thread.new(thread) do |thisThread|
       # thisThread.exit
        puts "object id = #{thisThread.object_id}"
end

The code above seems to work, thisThread is the same as thread  
(proved by uncommenting out the line), however in most languages this  
would not work (I would expect thisThread to be nil), why does it  
work in ruby and is it considered good practice?

Also is there a better way to access the current thread?

Thanks.

Garth.