[chuck] returning values when sporking

[Matthew Shanley]

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Hi all,

I'm new to the practice of forking, and experimenting with it (well
sporking) in chuck. I'm making a call along the lines of:

spork ~ sporkFun(arguments) => int value;

to a function:

fun int sporkFun(arguments) {returs something in here}

As I'm sure most of you know quite well, value doesn't get the return
value from the function called by the spork, but rather the shred ID.
That makes sense just fine and I can see lots of value in that. What I'm
wondering is if there's a way for the child shred to return values to
the parent, or as a wider question, for them to communicate in any way.
I've figured out that global variables can be accessed both by parent
and child, so I guess using those as flags is one way to go. Any other
ideas? I think this should all be clear, but I can post code if that
would help.


eagerly awaiting arrays, but not envying the work by ge and the rest to
bring them to us,

matt

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