From: Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
To: Inria Ocaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Native Threads
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:26:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021013112632.GA3729@iliana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021013104222.GB2343@cs.unibo.it>
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 12:42:22PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 11:04:48AM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > > The documentation should definitely be updated to mention that
> > > Thread.kill is not only unavailable with system threads, but also
> > > deprecated and definitely not advised.
> >
> > Why not remove it entirelly ?
>
> Backward compatibility, IMO we can't just remove a function from the
> standard library, this has to be done in two steps:
No, I don't think this is a problem here, since the function is _not_
working on the majority of implementations out there anyway.
Maintaining backward compatibility is just maintaining backward
brokeness, which we can live with well enough.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-13 11:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-06 11:12 nadji
2002-10-06 11:35 ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-06 14:34 ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-06 15:02 ` nadji
2002-10-13 8:43 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-10-13 9:04 ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-13 10:42 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2002-10-13 11:26 ` Sven LUTHER [this message]
2002-10-13 10:45 ` nadji
2002-10-13 15:21 ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-13 15:26 ` nadji
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