From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2009-10-02T12:08:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Monitors on data structures

On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:49:40 +0900, Russell Fulton wrote:

> Ken Bloom wrote:
>> On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:22:26 +0900, Russell Fulton wrote:
>> 
>>> callback routine.  I have made a class AddressList:
>>>     synchronise do  # make sure we don't clobber another thread
>>> block.
>>>       return unless host.status == 'up'
>>> does :)
>>> 
>>> BTW I do have this program working without treads but I want to know
>>> why this does not work !
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Russell
>> 
>> synchronize is spelled with a z. You misspelled it in the example you
>> posted here. Is it possible that you misspelled it in your actual code,
>> and the NoMethodError is being raised in a place where it doesn't
>> generate output to alert you to the problem?
> 
> Of course. American spelling, sigh...
> 
> Yup! that fixed it!  Thanks very much Ken
> 
> Need a "pragma: Ex British Empire"  :) :)
> 
> I wonder why the NoMethodError does not appear?

I guess threads just supress them in general.

irb(main):001:0> Thread.start{raise NoMethodError}
=> #<Thread:0x7fe5ee8ce930 dead>
irb(main):002:0> 




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