From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-12-13T17:00:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Korundum and threads

John Carter wrote:
> Personally I wish
>   Thread.abort_on_exception=true was the default so things didn't just 
> silently vanish.

Then you lose Thread#value:

#Thread.abort_on_exception=true

th = Thread.new do
   raise ArgumentError, "I'm sorry, but this is abuse"
end

begin
   th.value
rescue => ex
   puts ex.message
end

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