>> So my feature request would be to just remove it. ¨Â ëîï÷ ôèéó ÷ïõì>> cause terrible backwards incompatibility, but looking forward, would >> provide sanity to program execution flow. > > To start, we need to make the existing stdlib (e.g. net/*) not rely on > Thread#raise / Timeout at all. Could somebody give me some assurance that this would make Thread#raise actually go away? Thanks. -r