> From: Oleg Kobchenko > > > From: Devon McCormick <[email protected]> > > > > My feeling about the words is that a "fork" splits tasks apart but > retains a > > central framework (i.e. wait for tasks to return) whereas "spawn" has > the > > sense of letting offspring fend for themselves independently (i.e. > return > > immediately to the parent). > > Or... when there is a fork in the road and you part ways, you say good- > bye; > but when you spawn you say hello, feed an input and expect an output. > > Task has been out there and then part of J for ages. It has had a very > well > documented scriptdoc which makes it clear which is which. It seems, the > belated confusion is a bit of stretch.
I can only say that in my case the confusion was genuine - it took me a while to resolve the conflicting terminology used in the DOJ and the task script. My post was an attempt to try and save others from the same confusion. Given the signalled removal of the 2!: foreign conjunctions, that will hopefully be resolved in the near future. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
