Time to put a stop to Thread.stop?

[David Holmes]

On 15/05/2013 2:57 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Jeroen Frijters <jeroen at sumatra.nl> wrote:
>
>> IMO Thread.currentThread().stop(new Throwable()) should continue to work.
>> It is not unsafe and it is probably used in a lot of code to workaround the
>> madness that is checked exceptions.

That is truly awful! Why wouldn't people just wrap in a runtime 
exception ???? Truly, truly awful. :(

If we had to we could special-case for currentThread. :(

> There are existing JDK tests that use currentThread().stop to implement the
> occasionally necessary sneakyThrow.
>
> I suspect there are important uses of unsafe otherThread.stop in the real
> world, where it is used as a last resort to shut down an "application"
> running within a java vm, and works reasonably well in practice.

I would dispute that it can work "reasonably well in practice" given the 
near impossibility of writing async-exception-safe non-trivial Java 
code. That aside, the proposal is only for the stop(throwable) form 
which I would not expect to be used for the termination case.

David