Please don't error on if thread does not exist

[Mistrel]

PauseThread, ResumeThread, KillThread, etc. Considering threads are running independently, I've have some programs crash because of this:

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If ActiveThread
  OldThread=ActiveThread
  PauseThread(OldThread)
EndIf

Where the thread exists before it enters the "if" but does not while inside.

You can signal threads, yes. But what is the point of PauseThread if it's unsafe to be used?

[tinman]

Shouldn't this be in the feature requests forum?

Anyway, I'd agree except for ResumeThread. If you call ResumeThread() on a thread that doesn't exist because it was already running and has exited then you're doing something wrong.