On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 01:33:39PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
I'm not sure whether asynchronous exceptions should be in Haskell'. I
don't feel entirely comfortable about the interruptible operations
facet of the design, and I'm hoping that STM can clean things up: after
all, STM already gives
On 05 April 2006 12:47, David Roundy wrote:
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 01:33:39PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
The fact that throwTo can interrupt a takeMVar, but can't interrupt a
foreign call, even a concurrent one, is a bit strange. We have this
odd situation in GHC right now where throwTo can
On 05 April 2006 13:38, John Meacham wrote:
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 07:47:08AM -0400, David Roundy wrote:
For me, asynchronous exceptions are the primary reason to use
concurrent Haskell. They're the only way I'm aware of to write a
program that handles signals in Haskell, and it's be a real
