From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2009-07-22T00:00:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread.abort_on_exception default to true


> abort_on_exception means asynchronous exceptions will be delivered to
> the main thread.  That means any exception may happen on any point in
> the main thread.  From my point of view, asynchronous exception is
> like a nightmare, especially for production code.  Most code is not
> exception safe at that level.  That is the reason abort_on_exception
> to be false by default.  That is only for debugging purpose.

Hmm. True (I've even thought before that Thread#raise should be 
deprecated--too dangerous, can interrupt code in a finally block, etc).

That being said, could it perhaps at least output something to stderr by 
default to satisfy both cases?

Thanks.
-=r
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