[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: Future 1.1.0 concurrency library

2009-03-10 Thread ChrisK
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

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: Future 1.1.0 concurrency library

2009-03-09 Thread Neal Alexander
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++