From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2009-01-13T14:10:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Binding.of_caller examples don't work.

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:31:15 -0500, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
>> In Ruby 1.9 pesudocode this is only slightly different:
>> 
>> Thread.exclusive do
>>   [Fixnum,String].each{|klass| override_methods_on klass}
>>   result=builderblock.call
>>   [Fixnum,String].each{|klass| restore_methods_on klass}
>> end
> 
> This only guarantees only one thread can execute that block of code; it
> doesn't stop other threads from running:
> 
> ◆ ruby1.9 -e "require 'thread'; Thread.new { sleep 1; puts 'hello'; redo
> }; Thread.exclusive do; sleep; end"
> hello
> hello
> hello
> hello
> hello
> ^C
> 
> - Charlie


Okay. In that case, I'd better read Pickaxe for 1.9 from cover to cover 
before I try to use 1.9.

(Ducks and runs)
--Ken

-- 
Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/