Re: Thread Exit [was RE: threads change]

At 2:44 PM +0100 7/18/06, Dave Mitchell wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 05:46:09AM -0700, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
>>  First of all, do we have a consensus on changing anything?  I think so:
>>  Rafeal, Artur, Liz and Jan are in favor of the general concept of exit()
>>  terminating the app, and threads->exit() terminating the thread.  Any
>>  dissensions?
>
>No, I agree (it was originally my suggestion).
>
>>  Next is the question of this being overridable such that exit() can be
>>  made to just terminate just the thread.  Liz and Artur are in on this.
>>  Others?
>
>I'm not convinced of the need. Why can't the user just do
>
>     BEGIN {
>	package CORE::GLOBAL;
>	sub exit { thread->exit }
>     }
>
>if they really wish to override the module author's wishes?

Because that would apply to all threads then, including the main 
thread?  Which may not be what you want?


Liz