Time to put a stop to Thread.stop?

[Mario Torre]

2013/5/16 David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com>:

>> +1
>>
>> I think it should also blow at runtime unless people passes some fancy
>> argument (like -XX:recallRetired :), this way is easier for people to
>> fix their code, or, in case they can't, do workaround it.
>
>
> Interesting suggestions but I for one do not think that after 15 years of
> deprecation we need to go to such lengths to keep stop(Throwable) on
> life-support - it is @Deceased in my opinion :)
>

Hi David,

In fact, I fully agree for Thread.stop we should probably just do as
you suggest and kill it :) but my interest shifted to the @Retired
annotation which could be a nice general thing to have (Thread.stop
could actually be a test case for it).

Ideally, by Java 9, we could go through most of the @Deprecated and
convert them to @Retired and give one platform lifetime to make people
adjust their code. Java 10 could be finally free of all those ancient
vestiges of a glorious past :)

Cheers,
Mario
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