hi kassen,
Well, both could be used and either might be apropriate depending on the situation.
ok, good to know.
Generally sporking shreds is used to have several things happen at the same time. Function calls without sporking (instead of copying the function's code to one or more locations) is mainly usefull for clarity, readability and keeping your files from growing realy big. If neither is needed I would't use either because they add complexity.
the simplicity in this case was only intended to have a clear example. of course you are right in that no sporking is required here. i was wondering from a more conceptual point of view, which version would be better or more appropriate for chuck. as you say, the first example might be a little simpler than the second. still the second example seems clearer to me, well at least to what i'm used to... but i was a little concerned with the fact, that the shred ids kept increasing so rapidly (calling a new shred every click) and wondered wether chuck would really like that. thanks for your explanations, i'll be back with more questions... volker.