On 4-Feb-08, at 1:04 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
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> What do people think about this?
I'm not too terribly keen on the idea of a process I fork getting set  
to a lower priority than that that I requested. Then again, I don't  
all that often feel the need to fork processes anyway so perhaps I'm  
not really entitled to a vote.

I think I'd categorise this example as a bug, plain and simple. Don't  
do that. It's not a nice idiom at all.

To ameliorate the situation, we could *not* return the process from  
the #fork method - thus making it pointless to write foo:= [blah]  
fork. I'm sure that would upset some people that are to attached to  
pretending to be in unix-land.

I'd like to hope that something like
self critical:[foo:= [blah] fork]
might be acceptable as a replacement idiom. There are times when  
people simply have to accept that the simple looking way to do  
something is just plain wrong.

tim
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