RE: Question about 'Tackling the Awkward Squad'

2001-01-28 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Don Crumbs! You're right! The MVars that are drawn as heavy black boxes in Figure 7 of Tackling the Awkward Squad are used to block the consumer when it catches up with the producer. But if there is more than one consumer, it's not OK to leave these MVars empty. Instead, getChan should do a

RE: Combinator library gets software prize

2001-01-28 Thread Conal Elliott
> From: C.Reinke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Am I the only one who finds the exclusive emphasis on combinator > languages slightly disappointing [...]? > [...] > The paper somewhat downplays the role of embedding the > combinator-based DSL in a full functional language while also > mentioning