From: aero6dof@... (Alan Chen)
Date: 2003-09-05T08:08:05+09:00
Subject: Re: show me the ruby way

Since it's clear that I'm out of sync with everybody else on this 
issue, I'll stop the torture and drop it :).  However, Ari, you will 
want to be careful with the construct you orignally posted. If your 
GUI allows the user to cause an access the same undefined key before 
the thread completes, you'll kick off redundant threads searching
for the same resource.

Aredridel <aredridel@nbtsc.org> wrote in message news:<1062691741.4672.4.camel@mizar.nbtsc.org>...
> hb3 = Hash.new { |h,k|
     h[k] = "incomplete" #ADDED: define the value for the key
>    Thread.new { 
>      some_task_with_immense_processing_that_assigns_to_h(h, k) 
>    }
>  "incomplete"
> }

Ari,