From: Alex <imphasing@...>
Date: 2009-08-19T23:57:28+09:00
Subject: Re: a question with [Thread]

My guess is that since you're not joining the thread to the main
thread, it just terminates after the main thread exits. Try this:

a = 0
thread = Thread.new do
  while true
    puts "#{a+=1}"
  end
end
thread.join



Alex

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Im still<quietstill@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi
> when im running a code like this
>
>     a = 0
>      Thread.start{
>      while true
>        puts "#{a+=1}"
>      end
>      }
>
> This will be terminated automatically but wont keep on looping as expected.
> And by my test, the running result will always terminated while a = 41.means
> after putting "41" it stops.
>
> Im doing this in windows vista. I dont know if its OS related issue or not.
> or maybe im doing wrong ? anyone can tell me?
>