Re: Announce: hs-plugins-0.9.6

2004-08-15 Thread Claus Reinke
Hi Don, I think you're providing workarounds for some serious short- comings in Haskell! while a fully integrated design would be nicer (as in the old orthogonally persistent systems - google for type-safe linguistic reflection; or more recently in Clean), I look forward to having at least a

Re: isEmptyChan, System.Posix.Signals

2004-08-15 Thread Volker Stolz
In local.glasgow-haskell-users, you wrote: 1. 'isEmptyChan x' blocks if x is empty and some other thread is waiting to read from x: Prelude Control.Concurrent x - newChan Prelude Control.Concurrent forkIO $ readChan x Prelude Control.Concurrent empty - isEmptyChan x *** Exception: thread

Re: Announce: hs-plugins-0.9.6

2004-08-15 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
claus.reinke: I think you're providing workarounds for some serious short- comings in Haskell! while a fully integrated design would be nicer (as in the old orthogonally persistent systems - google for type-safe linguistic reflection; or more recently in Clean), I look forward to having at