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From: "S\xren Brandt" <sbrandt@daimi.aau.dk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta
Subject: Re: THIS and COMPONENTs
Date: 22 Jul 1996 21:32:16 GMT
Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University
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Kasper Osterbye wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to obtain a referece to the currently executing
> co-routine?

Yes. The systemenv pattern (in basicsystemenv.bet) contains
the following declaration:

   theActive: ^|sysHead; 

which is exactly what you are asking for.

> I need it for a simulation framework where I would like a co-routine
> to put itself into a queue.

  theActive[]->q.append;

or similar should do the trick.

> Or is the lack of such a feature the reason why it is S[]->fork rather
> than S.fork?

No. I don't know why this is so. Let's blame history.

  -- Soren