From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-11-17T03:55:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Threading Question -- sorry

Mike Houghton wrote:

/ ...

> timer = Timer.new( 1,5){puts "x"}
> timer.start
> timer.join
> 
> Ideally what I'd now like to do is make the Timer class such that I
> don't need to have a public join method and the @thr.join is, somehow,
> called intrinsically.

You do realize, don't you, that if you create a single thread and then join
it, you may as well not have created the thread? Performing a "sleep" call
in the main thread will produce the same result.

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Paul Lutus
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