Do threads 'end' themselves using core.thread?

[Alex Horvat]

On Monday, 22 July 2013 at 16:58:00 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
> On Jul 22, 2013, at 9:45 AM, "Alex Horvat" <alexh at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>>> ....
>>> When a detached thread terminates, its resources are auto- 
>>> matically released back to the system:"
>> 
>> Sounds like I can call Thread.getThis().thread_detachThis() 
>> from within DelayedHideTitle() and that will make the thread 
>> detached and therefore it will destroy itself properly.
>
> Only call thread_detachThis() if you initialized the thread 
> object via thread_attachThis().  Otherwise just discard the 
> reference and let it clean itself up.  The reason for the "do 
> not delete" restriction is because the thread objects are 
> tracked internally by the GC, and they must remain in a correct 
> state until the GC has recognized that they have terminated.

Thanks, sounds like I can just do this and the thread will clean 
itself up:

Thread TitleHider = new Thread(&DelayedHideTitle);
TitleHider.start();
TitleHider = null;