From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2006-08-11T23:55:11+09:00
Subject: Re: problem on enpanding array?

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:32:27 +0900, Matthias Ludwig wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> i wrote a little class for thread-pools, but there is a problem
> expanding args on a method-call.
> 
> def new_thread(*args, &action)
>   # wait until a slot in the pool is free
>   ...
> 
>   # start thread
>   threads << Thread.new { action.call(*args) }
> end
> 
> In the block (which is the "work to do in the thread") the args
> should be available with |arg1, arg2, ...|, but the aren't. They
> are still in one array (args).
> 
> Any ideas what's going wrong?
> 
> best regards,
> Matthias
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Works for me:

$threads=[]
def new_thread(*args, &action)
  # start thread
  $threads << Thread.new { action.call(*args) }
end

new_thread(7,"Hello") {|n,m| n.times{sleep 1; puts m}} 

sleep 10


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Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
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