[D-runtime] A mechanism to kill threads

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

So you are against adding this functionality to druntime even with a
big, fat, red warning explaining why it's unsafe and how *not* to use
it?

Regards,
Alex

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org> wrote:
> On May 16, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>>
>> Is there any reason we don't have a Thread.kill() function?
>
> Because Thread.kill() is inherently unsafe.  If a user really wants to expose that functionality he can subclass Thread.
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