From: "ara.t.howard" Date: 2008-09-18T12:53:12+09:00 Subject: Re: Threads preventing garbage collection? On Sep 17, 2008, at 3:24 PM, Brian Candler wrote: > Could you define "context" in this, erm, context? :-) > > I thought that 'def' started a new scope/context. If a thread is > started > from within def, how could it know about objects which are only > referenced from outside that scope? nope - we'll have to wait for matz! ;-) > > > It's as if the thread is holding on to bits of stack or bindings which > really belong to another thread. yeah - it certainly looks *exactly* that way - push stack and all... a @ http://codeforpeople.com/ -- we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being better. simply reflect on that. h.h. the 14th dalai lama