>> 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