From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-05-09T16:39:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread#join doesn't accept a timeout?

In article <1020923593.140092.18089.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp>,
Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>In message "Thread#join doesn't accept a timeout?"
>    on 02/05/09, Dossy <dossy@panoptic.com> writes:
>
>|Ideally, Thread#join would look something like this:
>|
>|  def join(timeout = nil)
>|    ...
>|  end
>|
>|timeout = nil means wait forever, timeout = 0 means
>|don't wait, and timeout >0 means wait that many
>|milliseconds.
>
>Interesting.  Should it be an RCR?
>
>							matz.

Yes.  It looks good, though I have to admit that I didn't see the original 
post come across the newsgroup, so maybe I'm missing something...

Phil