[racket-dev] Thread exit status

10 minutes ago, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:
> On 2011-10-22 9:53 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > I'm not following "may not have been started via `delay/thread'"
> > -- in your example you also need to define a new `standard-thread'
> > to start them, so you need something other than `thread' anyway.
> 
> You're right. Using standard-thread would let me simplify my
> event-handling code, since standard-threads are threads, whereas
> delay/threads are promises, but it doesn't make much difference.

Right.  If you need the thread value, you can do

  (delay/thread (send someone (current-thread)))

(I don't want to add something to the promise interface, since it
won't be applicable to all of the promise types.)


> I think my request for threads to remember what killed them may have
> been premature. I hadn't considered the security aspects of the
> situation: it might be a dangerous leak to have exception
> information available to all comers upon mere presentation of a
> thread handle.
> 
> There might be a revised design that separates the kill/resume/etc
> capabilities already built-in to thread handles from the reflection
> capability that'd be needed to get information on what killed a
> thread, but absent that, and for now, standard-thread will do fine.

I still don't see why you need to use that when `delay/thread' does
most of the work that you need to do anyway.  As a quick example for
an immediate benefit -- your code doesn't handle multiple values, and
`delay/thread' gives you that for free.

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