[D-runtime] A mechanism to kill threads

[Sean Kelly]

You're assuming that people read documentation.  In my experience, they don't.  But more to the point, since this is something that's fairly easy for a user to add if he needs it, there's no reason to expose it in core.thread.

On May 16, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:

> 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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