[chuck-users] can there be many ::ms in while?

[Martin Ahnelöv]

> 
> That's also quite simple. You can run threads (we call them shreds)
> next to the main one. You define those as functions and you "spork"
> the function. 
> =======================================
> //let's define a function
> fun void paralel()
> {
> while(true)
>     {
>     //this will loop forever
>     <<<"beep">>>;
>     second => now; 
>     }
> }
>  
> 
> //let's try sporking it
> spork ~ paralel();
> 
> //now we write the main loop that will run next to it
> while(true)
> {
> //this will also loop forever
> <<<"boop">>>; 
> .75::second => now;
> }
> 
> 
> //anything that you would write here will never get executed because
> the program will always be stuck in that last loop. you could still
> define functions here though.
> 
> ----------------------------- 
> 
> See? not at all hard. You can run as many functions next to eachother
> as you like, they can all be different or they could all be the same.
> If they are all the same you only need to define it once and can spork
> it as many times as you'd like (untill the cpu gives up! Notice that
> they can all run at different speeds if you'd like, in my example
> above one loops in .75 seconds while the other takes a whole second so
> they will drift in and out of phase. 
> 

Cool! Thanks!