From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2002-03-04T21:55:06+09:00 Subject: Re: UNIX domain sockets madness Hi, In message "Re: UNIX domain sockets madness" on 02/03/04, Matthew Bloch writes: |And of course what happens to 'client' after we exit the begin / end block |? It's not there, of course, because I should've declared it as local |*outside* of the block. I guess my question now is why didn't I see an |exception thrown for trying to access a duff reference? Threads, by default swallow exceptions on their termination. Try -d with the interpreter when you debug thread program. matz.