Add call-seq to Ractor doc; improve wording [doc]

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Marc-Andre Lafortune 2020-12-24 02:10:10 -05:00 committed by Marc-André Lafortune
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@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
# Besides frozen objects, there are shareable objects. Class and Module objects are shareable so
# the Class/Module definitons are shared between ractors. Ractor objects are also shareable objects.
# All operations for the shareable mutable objects are thread-safe, so the thread-safety property
# will be kept. We can not define mutable sharable objects in Ruby, but C extensions can introduce them.
# will be kept. We can not define mutable shareable objects in Ruby, but C extensions can introduce them.
#
# It is prohibited to access instance variables of mutable shareable objects (especially Modules and classes)
# from ractors other than main:
@ -226,12 +226,16 @@
# See {Ractor desgin doc}[rdoc-ref:doc/ractor.md] for more details.
#
class Ractor
#
# call-seq:
# Ractor.new(*args, name: nil) {|*args| block } -> ractor
#
# Create a new Ractor with args and a block.
#
# A block (Proc) will be isolated (can't access to outer variables). +self+
# inside the block will refer to the current Ractor.
#
# r = Ractor.new {puts "Hi, I am #{self.inspect}"}
# r = Ractor.new { puts "Hi, I am #{self.inspect}" }
# r.take
# # Prints "Hi, I am #<Ractor:#2 test.rb:1 running>"
#
@ -242,7 +246,7 @@ class Ractor
# arg = [1, 2, 3]
# puts "Passing: #{arg} (##{arg.object_id})"
# r = Ractor.new(arg) {|received_arg|
# puts "Received: #{received_arg} (##{received_arg.object_id})"
# puts "Received: #{received_arg} (##{received_arg.object_id})"
# }
# r.take
# # Prints:
@ -286,7 +290,9 @@ class Ractor
}
end
# call-seq: Ractor.select(*ractors, [yield_value:, move: false]) -> [ractor or symbol, obj]
#
# call-seq:
# Ractor.select(*ractors, [yield_value:, move: false]) -> [ractor or symbol, obj]
#
# Waits for the first ractor to have something in its outgoing port, reads from this ractor, and
# returns that ractor and the object received.
@ -346,6 +352,10 @@ class Ractor
}
end
#
# call-seq:
# Ractor.receive -> msg
#
# Receive an incoming message from the current Ractor's incoming port's queue, which was
# sent there by #send.
#
@ -420,6 +430,10 @@ class Ractor
end
alias recv receive
#
# call-seq:
# Ractor.receive_if {|msg| block } -> msg
#
# Receive only a specific message.
#
# Instead of Ractor.receive, Ractor.receive_if can provide a pattern
@ -442,14 +456,15 @@ class Ractor
# baz2
#
# If the block returns a truthy value, the message will be removed from the incoming queue
# and return this method with the message.
# When the block is escaped by break/return/exception and so on, the message also
# removed from the incoming queue.
# Otherwise, the messsage remains in the incoming queue and the next received
# message is checked by the given block.
# and returned.
# Otherwise, the messsage remains in the incoming queue and the following received
# messages are checked by the given block.
#
# If there is no messages in the incoming queue matching the check, the method will
# block until such message arrives.
# If there are no messages left in the incoming queue, the method will
# block until new messages arrive.
#
# If the block is escaped by break/return/exception/throw, the message is removed from
# the incoming queue as if a truthy value had been returned.
#
# r = Ractor.new do
# val = Ractor.receive_if{|msg| msg.is_a?(Array)}
@ -483,6 +498,10 @@ class Ractor
Primitive.ractor_receive_if b
end
#
# call-seq:
# ractor.send(msg, move: false) -> self
#
# Send a message to a Ractor's incoming queue to be consumed by Ractor.receive.
#
# r = Ractor.new do
@ -567,6 +586,10 @@ class Ractor
end
alias << send
#
# call-seq:
# Ractor.yield(msg, move: false) -> nil
#
# Send a message to the current ractor's outgoing port to be consumed by #take.
#
# r = Ractor.new {Ractor.yield 'Hello from ractor'}
@ -606,6 +629,10 @@ class Ractor
}
end
#
# call-seq:
# ractor.take -> msg
#
# Take a message from ractor's outgoing port, which was put there by Ractor.yield or at ractor's
# finalization.
#
@ -690,6 +717,10 @@ class Ractor
attr_reader :ractor
end
#
# call-seq:
# ractor.close_incoming -> true | false
#
# Closes the incoming port and returns its previous state.
# All further attempts to Ractor.receive in the ractor, and #send to the ractor
# will fail with Ractor::ClosedError.
@ -705,6 +736,10 @@ class Ractor
}
end
#
# call-seq:
# ractor.close_outgoing -> true | false
#
# Closes the outgoing port and returns its previous state.
# All further attempts to Ractor.yield in the ractor, and #take from the ractor
# will fail with Ractor::ClosedError.
@ -720,6 +755,10 @@ class Ractor
}
end
#
# call-seq:
# Ractor.shareable?(obj) -> true | false
#
# Checks if the object is shareable by ractors.
#
# Ractor.shareable?(1) #=> true -- numbers and other immutable basic values are frozen
@ -733,18 +772,20 @@ class Ractor
}
end
# Make +obj+ sharable.
#
# Basically, traverse referring objects from obj and freeze them.
# call-seq:
# Ractor.make_shareable(obj, copy: false) -> shareable_obj
#
# When a sharable object is found in traversing, stop traversing
# from this shareable object.
# Make +obj+ shareable between ractors.
#
# If +copy+ keyword is +true+, it makes a deep copied object
# and make it sharable. This is safer option (but it can take more time).
# +obj+ and all the objects it refers to will be frozen, unless they are
# already shareable.
#
# If +copy+ keyword is +true+, the method will copy objects before freezing them
# This is safer option but it can take be slower.
#
# Note that the specification and implementation of this method are not
# matured and can be changed in a future.
# mature and may be changed in the future.
#
# obj = ['test']
# Ractor.shareable?(obj) #=> false