On 11/15/07, Peter Todd <chuck@xinaesthetic.net> wrote:

Hello,

I think it's not so much a question of 'what a shred is', as a more general issue of the scope of variables that are declared within a function (ie, they are not accessible outside the scope of said function). I'm about to leave my house, and not feeling quite clear enough to explain more completely, but I hope that's enough to point you in the right direction.

Yes, I know variables declared within a function belong to that function and can't be adressed from the outside but member variables of *objects* can be adressed from the outside and when sporking the function becomes a object.

With all due respect I do think there are some big questions here about "what a Shred is". I can execute the following;

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Shred foo[3];

foo[0].exit();
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This is quite mysterious to me, here a "Shred" (object) that's not a "shred" (sub-process) can "exit". Those two lines don't generate any errors, apparently they are fine but I have no idea what they do.

Yours,
Kas.