CM (thread) not back-compatible? (minor?)

[Rick Taube]

>In the first case the thread is created, by references to "X" in
stella

>result in complaints about a bad object reference. The same thing
happened

>before, when I thought I could use a string for that second arg to
thread.

>


the name table does not compare strings, its an #'equal hashtable. im
suprised you example ever worked. if you want to gensym names you can
use NAME:



Stella [Top-Level]: (thread (name 'x t) () )

#<<THREAD: X10>


Stella [Top-Level]: show x10

Object:    X10

Type:     Thread

Status:   Normal

Objects:  0

Start:    unset


Stella [Top-Level]: