On 9/22/05, Charlls Quarra
<charlls_quarra@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
3
what is going on?
0 <---- 0? SHOULDNT IT BE 3??
Why would it be 3? 3.do will successively pass 0, 1,
2 to the i argument.
3 will never enter the loop.
Ok, everything fine (except that strange first 0
instead of 3) but now comment the line:
("current time is "++time).postln;
the sclang hangs and it get stuck dumping the
value
i=0 value. This is a month or so old CVS. Should i
update or this happens also with current cvs?
When you schedule anything on a clock, the item is
rescheduled for x
beats later, where x is the return value of the item
(the .yield value
for a routine, or the return value of a function).
That's if x is a
SimpleNumber. If it's a non-numeric class, the item
is not rescheduled
and the thread comes to an end.
When you have the
("current time is "++time).postln;
line in the function, the return value is a string,
so the function is
not rescheduled. When you remove it, the return
value is i (which will
be 0, 1 or 2).
When i == 0, a function will be rescheduled for
immediate execution,
so that thread takes over the virtual machine and
doesn't let anything
else execute. CRASH
The bottom line is, when you're scheduling a
function, if there is
even the slightest chance that the function will
return the number,
you should place some other value (such as nil) as
the last thing in
the function unless you want it to be rescheduled.
Then it's the
user's responsibility to make sure the return values
are sensible for
scheduling (e.g., not 0).
Not a bug, just a programming error (one which I've
made more times
than I care to admit).
For fun, try this:
(
~f = {|val| val.postln; };
3.do{arg i;
SystemClock.schedAbs( thisThread.seconds +
5.0 , {arg time;
"what is going on?".postln; ~f.value( i+1
);
// ("current time is
"++time).postln;
} );
}
)
Then you'll see the threads run repeatedly.
hjh
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