From: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@cs.unibo.it>
To: Inria Ocaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Native Threads
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 12:42:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021013104222.GB2343@cs.unibo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021013090448.GA1277@iliana>
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:
1) deprecate it using an <h1> .. </h1> block in the HTML documentation,
possibly in red, blinking font :-)
2) remove from the library in a next release
Cheers.
--
Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy
zack@cs.unibo.it | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro
"I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not
sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!" -- G.Romney
-------------------
To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr
Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/
Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-13 10:42 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 [this message]
2002-10-13 11:26 ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-13 10:45 ` nadji
2002-10-13 15:21 ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-13 15:26 ` nadji
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20021013104222.GB2343@cs.unibo.it \
--to=zack@cs.unibo.it \
--cc=caml-list@inria.fr \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox