Re: Thread Exit [was RE: threads change]

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?


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