Title:

exit() - terminate the execution of a thread and return a value to the evaluator manager.

Usage:

exit(value)

Arguments:

value:
the value to be returned by this thread. Other threads can query this during a join operation.

Side Effect:

The expressions supplied at creation through the onExit argument and through onExit expressions evaluated within this thread are evaluated. The value is cached by the evaluator manager and can be queried by other threads after this thread has completed.

Do we need to have a way to not cache this value and have a detached thread in the Pthreads sense?

See Also:

join()

onExit()

Examples:

      converged = sum(errors) < threshold 
      if(converged)
       exit(T)

     
      converged = sum(errors) < threshold 
      if(converged)
       exit(coefficients)  # return the coefficients from a fit.

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