From: DrBenway <westworld@...>
Date: 2008-01-28T21:39:57+09:00
Subject: Re: to sleep no more

On Jan 25, 9:54 pm, Judson Lester <nya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 25, 2008 12:19 PM, DrBenway <westwo...@pandora.be> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Wow thnx Stephen for coocking up an example so fast :)
> > That's indeed what I was planning to do.
>
> > That way I call  snake = Animal.new(5, 10, "egg", "snake") once and
> > from then on it leads a life on its own (that's what got me to think
> > that I needed threads).
>
> You could do something like:
>
> > > class Animal
> > >         def initialize(i_period = 60, m_period = 120, from = "egg", to
> > > = "chicken")
> > >                 @incubation_period = i_period
> > >                 @maturation_period = m_period
> > >                 @slept = 0
> > >                 @from_type = from
> > >                 @to_type = to
> > >                 @current_type = @from_type
> > >                 @children = []
>
>                       Thread.run do
>                           while true do
>                              mysleep(1)
>                           end
>                       end
>
> > >         end
>
> As a start, anyway.  Much better to rejigger the whole thing so that
> the thread looks like
>
> Thread.run do
>   sleep(incubation_period)
>   born
>   sleep(maturation_period)
>   mature
>   sleep(adult_lifetime)
>   die
> end
>
> Also, it seems pretty obvious that you should do different species as
> subclasses of Animal, so that:
>
> class Snake < Animal
>   def incubation_period; 5; end
>
>   def maturation_period; 10; end
>
>   def adult_lifetime; 15; end
>
>   def born; @state="snake"; end
>   #etc, etc
> end
>
> menagerie = []
> Snake.new(menagerie)
> Deer.new(menagerie)
> Fox.new(menagerie)
> sleep 6
> menagerie.each {|animal| animal.give_birth} => "Snake 1: I had 150
> children.  Deer 1: I had 1 child.  Fox 1: I'm too young to reproduce"
>
> Granted, incomplete as it stands, but there's a direction there.
>
> --
> Your subnet is currently 169.254.0.0/16.  You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

This is indeed what I needed. Many thnx