Works fine on Linux.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Ben Arthur <bjarthu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> in my continuing quest to understand Julia tasks, i have created the
> following contrived example which does not behave as i would expect. can
> anyone help explain please? thanks in advance.
>
> julia> function printfoobar()
> println("foo")
> println("bar")
> end
>
> printfoobar (generic function with 1 method)
>
> julia> printfoobar() # great, it works
> foo
> bar
>
> julia> println("honey"); println("wagon") # no surprise again
> honey
> wagon
>
> julia> t = @async (println("honey"); println("wagon")) # works too,
> modulo 'Task' being inbetween
> honey
> Task (queued) @0x00007fb59e832500wagon
>
> julia> t = @async printfoobar() # ditto: foo and bar both printed,
> albeit with 'Task' inbetween
> foo
> Task (queued) @0x00007fb59f2e1720bar
>
> julia> t = @async (println("honey"); printfoobar(); println("wagon")) #
> WHERE ARE bar AND wagon ???
> honey
> Task (queued) @0x00007fb59f2e1840foo
>
> julia> # <ENTER> #nope, they still don't appear
>
> julia> # <ENTER>
>
> julia> # <ENTER>
>
> julia> wait(t) # nope, still no further printed output
>
> julia> yield() # still no joy
>
> julia> istaskdone(t)
> true
>
> is it that println("foo") and println("wagon") never get executed? or
> that the output stream is just not making it to the REPL? this is in 0.3.6
> by the way. similar things happen on a 0 day old master.
>
