From: ara howard <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-03-22T16:05:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe


On Mar 21, 2008, at 11:55 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

> I don't think we'll get anywhere solving the problem by saying  
> "let's just remove threads" or "don't use threads".

indeed.  the only sane approach, i think, is the middle one whereby  
threads are there, exceptions are there, but cross thread exceptions  
operated via channels and events.

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