[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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