21 Jul
2004
21 Jul
'04
8:22 p.m.
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 at 12:25:23 -0500, Brian Mastenbrook wrote:
To that end I would propose that a predicate thread-finished-p should be added, which returns true when a thread is no longer eligible for execution, either by normal or abnormal termination.
I like the idea of this predicate, but I'd rather see it called THREAD- ALIVE-P, instead of THREAD-FINISHED-P.
"Finished" might carry some vague connotation that the thread has run through to an orderly completion ("I've finished my work), but "alive" is just the opposite of dead.
-Peter