[squeak-dev] Re: Cuis updated to #0228
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Fri Jul 17 03:19:46 UTC 2009
Juan Vuletich wrote:
> Some might remember
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-February/124960.html
> . It was a discussion about the dangers of using the result of #fork and
> friends, and the convenience of first creating the process, storing it
> somewhere and later doing #resume. In this release of Cuis, all callers
> of #fork and friends that needed the return value were changed for that
> pattern, and now #fork and friends simply return nil. This is the way to
> avoid those nasty bugs.
I really like that solution. It's simple and ensures people know what
they're doing.
Cheers,
- Andreas
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