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

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 03:29:33 UTC 2009


2009/7/17 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
> 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.
>
+1
Good to know that someone put that discussion fruits into a practical
plane, even if in own fork :)

> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>



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