From: Rasputin <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2004-01-22T07:02:27+09:00
Subject: Re: no timeslicing?

Pit Capitain wrote:
>> symbols = %w( = ^ V < > @ # ! )
>> threads = []
>> string = ""
>>
>> symbols.each { |symbol|
>>         threads << Thread.new(symbol) do |sym|
>>                 9.times { string << sym }
>>         end
>> }
>>
>> threads.each { |w| threads.join }
>> puts string
> 
> 
> Maybe Thread.pass can help you. It's also in the pickaxe.
> 
> BTW: shouldn't it be "w.join"?

Ack! - just my luck to confuse two completely different methods on
two completely different objects that just happen to share a name
  - thanks!

Think the odd output was an artefact of the short duration
of each thread - if I add a delay the output is what I'd expect:

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0rasputin@lb:rasputin$ cvs diff freds.rb
Index: freds.rb
===================================================================
RCS file: /data/cvsroot/rasputin/freds.rb,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -r1.3 freds.rb
7c7
<                 9.times { string << sym }
---
 >                 9.times { string << sym ; sleep(0.2) }
0rasputin@lb:rasputin$ ruby freds.rb
=^V<>@#!!#@><V^=!#@><V^=!#@><V^=!#@><V^=!#@><V^=!#@><V^=!#@><V^=!#@><V^=
0rasputin@lb:rasputin$

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Thanks to all the sanity checkers!


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