[ruby-talk:00677] Re: How do I use `callcc'

On 18 Aug, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "[ruby-talk:00673] Re: How do I use `callcc'"
>     on 99/08/17, [e-mail] <[e-mail]> writes:
> 

[...]

> Well, I have to admit that coroutines are more predictable than
> threads.  By the way, Ruby's thread works well even on MSDOS.

WHAT????? Ruby's threading doesn't depend on the OS? Ruby is able to
have multithreading even under such crab like MS-DOS???? :-O

Great!!! I think, Ruby is the first interpreter, that realize such
feature under MS-DOS, AFAIK!!! :-)))))))))))

You know? I have just begun to dig in the internals of Ruby. And
whereas I already thought, that there are many great things waiting for
me, I am more and more surprised what you have achieved with Ruby!

That threading issue would probably also worth mentioning as
advertisment, what do you think? Something like: "Ruby has own
threading independ from the OS"! :-)

> 
>                                                 matz.

\cle

PS: I have downloaded the new manual for 1.4. I have found that you use
the term `block' instead of `iterator'. Good choice, I think! It has
first confused me a little bit, as during that time I didn't know, what
do you mean with `iterator'. :-)