On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shea...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 2 June 2012 09:28, Stefan Marr <smallt...@stefan-marr.de> wrote: > > Hi Sean: > > > > On 02 Jun 2012, at 05:07, Sean P. DeNigris wrote: > > > >> During the process, I noticed that the Blue Book specifies that #fork > >> returns the block itself (pg. 252), while in Pharo it returns the > process > >> (see #testFork in the slice). Should our implementation be changed to > match > >> the Blue Book? > > > > Why would it be desirable to have the block? > > How would you obtain the process object after your change? > > > > Having the process directly is useful to do fork/join style operations. > > How do you #join Processes? I can't see anything in Process' protocol > for doing so. so what am I missing? > Nothing. Theres no support for join. You have to roll your own. > > frank > > > Best regards > > Stefan > > > > -- > > Stefan Marr > > Software Languages Lab > > Vrije Universiteit Brussel > > Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium > > http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr > > Phone: +32 2 629 2974 > > Fax: +32 2 629 3525 > > > > > > -- best, Eliot
