From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-09-05T11:45:41+09:00
Subject: Re: show me the ruby way

Aredridel wrote:
> Good use I can think of:
> 
> hb3 = Hash.new { |h,k|
>    Thread.new { 
>      some_task_with_immense_processing_that_assigns_to_h(h, k) 
>    }
>    "incomplete"
> }
> 
> I can see that being used in the app I'm writing -- a clone of
> Rhythmbox, which is a clone of iTunes -- I'd use it in the music-library
> classes, where scanning the disk for music can take tens of minutes, but
> the GUI is in it's own thread...

I find this to be very clever. I'd want it to be
commented, though, if I were reading the code. :)

This snippet should perhaps be captured somewhere.

Hal