From: Bill Atkins <batkins57@...>
Date: 2005-02-07T12:38:40+09:00
Subject: Stopping a thread

Say I have a thread in variable @thread.  Is it possible to stop that
thread from the main thread?  I am aware of Thread.stop, but I don't
want to stop the current thread, just the thread represented in
@thread.

-- 
$stdout.sync = true
"Just another Ruby hacker.".each_byte do |b|
  ('a'..'z').step do|c|print c+"\b";sleep 0.007 end;print b.chr
end; print "\n"