From: "Simon Kröger" <SimonKroeger@...>
Date: 2007-10-14T00:50:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a standard pattern for threaded access to a file?

ara.t.howard wrote:
>[...]
> threads = [] and 5.times{ threads << Thread.new{ puts q.pop } }
>[...]

just a question of style:

while the above is quite clever, is there any (hidden) reason to use it over
such primitive constructs like

threads = Array.new(5){ Thread.new{ puts q.pop } }

or

threads = (1..5).map{ Thread.new{ puts q.pop } }

?

cheers

Simon