Re: [Jruby-devel] No we are famous

2006-04-12 Thread Charles O Nutter
Awesome, now we can get some real language weenies interested :)On 4/12/06, Nawrocke Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Just saw this on LtU (amazing language theory site) http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1408and they are excited...kelly---This S

[Jruby-devel] No we are famous

2006-04-12 Thread Nawrocke Kelly
Just saw this on LtU (amazing language theory site) http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1408 and they are excited... kelly --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and

Re: [Jruby-devel] Thread#kill

2006-04-12 Thread Charles O Nutter
Perhaps it's similar to Thread.raise, but without raising anything. Should be an easy fix.On 4/12/06, Nawrocke Kelly < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I ran some test cases in C Ruby and yes they are executed.  so kill doesn't mean kill, its more of a polite "please stop at your earliestconvenience and do

Re: [Jruby-devel] Thread#kill

2006-04-12 Thread Nawrocke Kelly
I ran some test cases in C Ruby and yes they are executed. so kill doesn't mean kill, its more of a polite "please stop at your earliest convenience and don't do anything silly in your ensure blocks". kelly On Apr 12, 2006, at 7:36 PM, Charles O Nutter wrote: My friend, you have stumbled o

Re: [Jruby-devel] Thread#kill

2006-04-12 Thread Charles O Nutter
My friend, you have stumbled onto the dark underbelly of Ruby and JRuby: Threads.About a year ago, I rewrote the threading subsystem so that more of the common thread semantics would function correctly. That required a number of tricks and locking mechanisms for stop, wait, critical, etc to actuall