From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2001-02-13T02:11:41+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:10733] Re: stopping a thread instance Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:10692] stopping a thread instance" on 01/02/11, "Guy N. Hurst" writes: |Is there some obvious reason I am missing why |there is no Thread#stop method? Because stopping a thread from outside is bad habit in general. At least that was what I thought 3 years ago. matz.