Don Stewart wrote:
Who needs to build futures into the language -- all you need is MVars, eh?
For a pure computation in Haskell one can use par (which did take changing the
runtime, and arguably adding to the language).
The future package I uploaded is just a clean way to get something a
ChrisK wrote:
Hello,
As a side effect of the discussion of the new C++ future/promise
features at http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3221 I have implemented
a Haskell package called future at
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/future
This ought to do what C++