win32utils devel - Oct 2004 - win32-ipc idea - allow a block

Hi all,

What do you think about allowing a block to the various wait methods in 
win32-ipc?  These could be fired off if signalled, e.g.

i = IPC.new
i.wait{ puts "We got a signal!" }

That way, you wouldn''t constantly have to check the return value.  Make
sense?  Or not?

Regards,

Dan

Hi Dan,
> What do you think about allowing a block to the various wait methods 
> in win32-ipc?  These could be fired off if signalled, e.g.
>
> i = IPC.new
> i.wait{ puts "We got a signal!" }
Makes perfect sense to me ... this is very Rubyisque :-)
> That way, you wouldn''t constantly have to check the return value.
> Make sense?  Or not?
I thought wait( )  would  take in a list (array) of objects on which it 
is waiting and an optional timeout parameter. At least that is how Perl 
does it, I think. So I am not sure how to really use this class.
All I would say is keep both forms: block form as well as "check the 
return value later" form.

HTH,
-- shanko