From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2003-01-16T09:20:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advocacy in sigs

Mauricio Fern?ndez <batsman.geo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 05:50:01AM +0900, Martin DeMello wrote:
>> nthreads.times {|i| Thread.new {task[i].call}.join}
>> #Multithreading Ruby style. 
> 
> This executes the tasks sequentially as you wait for each one to end
> before starting the next...

Good catch! I'd subtly misunderstood the way in which 'join' worked - I
thought it prevented the calling thread from terminating, not from
continuing.

martin