Re: [Chicken-users] Please do not drop 'thread-terminate!' from the SRFI 18 impl

[Elf]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Vincent Manis wrote:

> My preference is the same as John Cowan's: kill it. If not, put warnings in 
> the manual. I don''t find SRFI-18's warning (in the paragraph headed NOTE:) 
> strong enough, as it uses the phrase `may be a problem', not `is virtually 
> guaranteed to be a problem'. Further, I don't know what fraction of Chicken 
> users actually go and read the SRFIs.

its fairly hard to use the threading in chicken without reading the srfi 
first, as thats where its documented :)

im against removing thread-terminate! and friends because theyre useful.  id
rather deprecate mutexes and the like for a cleaner system of currency, or
(at the very least) augment thread-terminate! in such a way that it waits to
terminate until the held mutexes (mutii? mutices?) are dropped.

-elf