From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2010-01-06T05:31:55+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR: fork(n) {|n| }

> I don't think it gains you anything: in a fork the child process has a 
> completely separate address space, so all variables are independent from 
> the parent.
> 
> However in threads you may wish explicitly to copy a value, because it 
> can change in the other thread. Especially;

right it doesn't gain anything, except continuity between threading 
versus forking.  It just surprises me to not allow it.
-r
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