On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Edward Z. Yang <ezy...@mit.edu> wrote:
> > Pure code can always be safely asynchronously interrupted (even code > using state like the ST monad), and IO code can be made to interact > correctly with thread termination simply by using appropriate bracketing > functions that would handle normal IO exceptions. > Ertugrul's advice is still correct. I'd wager there are very few concurrent applications that could survive a killThread without disaster. People simply don't write or test code with that in mind, and even when they do, it's more likely than not to be wrong.
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