eval() of empty string hangs

[Peter Hansen]

Chris Connett wrote:

> Is it 
> possible that the exception is propagating up the wrong stack?  This is 
> a separate thread, could it be on the main thread somehow?  The creating 
> thread has ended by the time this exception is due to be raised.  

This doesn't make sense to me.  What do you mean by 'creating thread'?
If it's what I think you mean, then either it's not really the
creating thread, or it hasn't really ended yet... after all, how
could a thread that has ended cause an exception to occur?