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

[Vincent Manis]

On 2008-Aug-9, at 04:23, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote:

> If the postulated programmer had just found mygreatprogram on the net
> and want's to run it, is it a good thing for said programmer to find
> chicken unable to run it until a patch is applied?

And what mygreatprogram is written in R6RS Scheme?

Anyway, while I really prefer terminating thread-terminate!, I would  
be happy with
a strong warning in the manual. This allows mygreatprogram to run on  
Chicken
(though perhaps crashing occasionally, as it does on other Scheme  
implementations,
because of a design where threads were terminated prematurely), while  
still letting
programmers know that it shouldn't be used. (Think of thread- 
terminate! as being
like gets in the Standard C library: everybody knows you shouldn't use  
it, but it's
left in the library for compatibility with programs written 30 years  
ago.) This warning
is far too weak in the SRFI, so the manual is the obvious place to  
document it.

And with that, I shall shut up on this matter. :-)

-- v