From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-12-16T17:30:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby BUG when using PStore and fork

Hi,

In message "Re: Ruby BUG when using PStore and fork"
    on 02/12/16, Jeremy Henty <jeremy@chaos.org.uk> writes:

|It works!  So it seems that doing a throw after forking is actually
|OK.  But if that is so, why is there a problem with "fork do throw
|:foo end"?  Is it because fork assumes that the flow of control in any
|supplied block must terminate normally at the end of block rather than
|jumping out in the middle?  I guess that is reasonable, in which case
|the solution is just a more helpful error message.  Otherwise I am
|still confused and would appreciate any further explanations you can
|give.

Your guess is right, and I admit I've forgot about this bahavior.
So do you recommend any better message?

							matz.