[squeak-dev] Re: Cuis updated to #0228

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Fri Jul 17 12:35:45 UTC 2009


Andreas Raab wrote:
> 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
Thanks! :)

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich



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