On 2 June 2012 09:28, Stefan Marr <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sean: > > On 02 Jun 2012, at 05:07, Sean P. DeNigris wrote: > >> During the process, I noticed that the Blue Book specifies that #fork >> returns the block itself (pg. 252), while in Pharo it returns the process >> (see #testFork in the slice). Should our implementation be changed to match >> the Blue Book? > > Why would it be desirable to have the block? > How would you obtain the process object after your change? > > Having the process directly is useful to do fork/join style operations.
How do you #join Processes? I can't see anything in Process' protocol for doing so. so what am I missing? frank > Best regards > Stefan > > -- > Stefan Marr > Software Languages Lab > Vrije Universiteit Brussel > Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium > http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr > Phone: +32 2 629 2974 > Fax: +32 2 629 3525 > >
