use Future.fork rather than Thread.fork, so that the thread is part of the global thread management
(*  Title:      Pure/General/stack.ML
    Author:     Makarius
Non-empty stacks.
*)
signature STACK =
sig
  type 'a T = 'a * 'a list
  val level: 'a T -> int
  val init: 'a -> 'a T
  val top: 'a T -> 'a
  val map_top: ('a -> 'a) -> 'a T -> 'a T
  val map_all: ('a -> 'a) -> 'a T -> 'a T
  val push: 'a T -> 'a T
  val pop: 'a T -> 'a T      (*exception Empty*)
end;
structure Stack: STACK =
struct
type 'a T = 'a * 'a list;
fun level (_, xs) = length xs;
fun init x = (x, []);
fun top (x, _) = x;
fun map_top f (x, xs) = (f x, xs);
fun map_all f (x, xs) = (f x, map f xs);
fun push (x, xs) = (x, x :: xs);
fun pop (_, x :: xs) = (x, xs)
  | pop (_, []) = raise Empty;
end;