From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-10-14T01:27:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a standard pattern for threaded access to a file?


On Oct 13, 2007, at 9:50 AM, Simon Kröger wrote:

> 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

not really.  mostly i just like the '5' to be more prominent in the code

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

this works

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

seems kinda heavyweight, but yeah

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