From: Ari Brown <ari@...>
Date: 2007-10-01T03:01:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Subclassing Thread?


On Sep 30, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Kero wrote:

>>> Those familiar with threading in Java will know that you can write a
>>> class that is a subclass of Thread, and then put the thread's  
>>> code into
>>> 'public static void run,' which gets executed once thread.start is
>>> called.  Can something similar to this be done in Ruby?
>
> 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!
>
> And I really love the syntax of Ruby:
>   Thread.new {
>     // thread's code
>   }

Quick thread question:

Does a thread need to be started with x.join, or will it start  
automatically?

Ari
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