[chuck-users] Events as shared instance variables across shreds

[Spencer Salazar]

Hi David,
Both approaches should be equivalent--in either case the same  
underlying Event is being accessed.

spencer

On Jan 29, 2007, at 9:53 PM, David Michael wrote:

> Bear (bare?) with me,
>
> Is it advisable to have Events as instance variables so that shreds
> sporked from that instance all reference this internal event?
>
> The code below works in practice.
> (I have not run the code example, but I do something similar in a
> program).
>
> Are there any pitfalls to doing this, rather than explicitly passing
> in the Event, as is shown in the language tutorials?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> D
>
>
> // event as instance variable across shreds
> // -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> class Object
> {
>    new Event @=> Event event;
>
>    function first()
>    {
>      while(true)
>      {
>        this.event.signal();
>        1::second => now;
>      }
>    }
>
>    function second()
>    {
>      while(true)
>      {
>        this.event => now;
>        <<< "recieved event" >>>;
>      }
>    }
> }
>
> Object object;
>
> spork ~ object.first();
> spork ~ object.second();
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