Thread-killing, round 666 (was Re: Lisp mentality vs. Python mentality)

[Richard Brodie]

"Vsevolod" <vseloved at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:42cebb2b-0361-416c-8932-9371da50a1ec at y6g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

> There's a common unification library -- bordeaux-threads -- 
> that abstracts away implementation specifics. It's API includes
> the function destroy-thread.

Which is deprecated, like the Java one. It's not hard to provide
a kill thread call, if you don't mind it having undefined semantics.