From: Stephen Ware <sgware@...>
Date: 2007-10-01T02:14:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Subclassing Thread?

Kero wrote:
> The usual question is, why would you want that?
> A Thread, by its nature, is something that should be running.
> Especially delaying the start means... there's no underlying thread yet!

My motivation for wanting the thread in a separate class is simply 
convenience.  The class will be very large... several pages of code at 
least... so putting it into a block would be a little unwieldy.

Thanks very much for your suggestions.  I've found another method that 
seems to work well also.  Rather than subclassing Thread, I have written 
the class (call it "User") as a normal class and done this:

Thread.new(args){|args| User.new(args)}

That seems to accomplish what I'm going for.

Thanks for your help!
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