From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-05-26T14:40:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Threading oddness

On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 06:40:16PM +0900, ts wrote:
>  Why you don't use Thread::abort_on_exception ?

There are two issues here:

1) The default behavior is to not abort and not print anything.  This is
   not intuitive and can cause problems for new users.

2) If I want a message printed to the console, but I don't want my
   program necessarily to abort, then I must wrap the thread in a
   begin/rescue/end block.  This is a) a little bit verbose, hence the
   RCR, and b) printing out the exception the same way as Ruby does is
   not a simple task; it requires some thinking to get it right.

Paul