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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