Re: [boost] Thread cancellation

From: Roland Schwarz (roland.schwarz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-02 12:35:37

Anthony Williams wrote:
> I didn't see your previous suggestion to use "alert" rather than
> "cancel". However, I do like interruption, and I have renamed cancellation to
> interruption on trunk.

Why not even take another step too:

throw-at(threadid, exception);

instead of interruption? After all it would underpin that interruption 
is not normal control flow.

Roland aka speedsnail