On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:37:17AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> > | In the meantime, I'm glad we have got a new function
> > | atomicModifyIORef
> > | which I for one will use, when it gets into GHC's regular release.
> >
> > Just before this gets out of the door... any chance of calling it
> >
> > modifyIORef
> >
> > and documenting that it's atomic? Sometimes names can get too long!
> >
> > Not a big deal though.
>
> It has a different type:
>
> atomicModifyIORef :: IORef a -> (a -> (a,b)) -> IO b
> modifyIORef :: IORef a -> (a -> a) -> IO ()
It would break backwards compatability, but
modifyIORef_ :: IORef a -> (a -> IO a) -> IO ()
modifyIORef :: IORef a -> (a -> IO (a, b)) -> IO b
(both specified atomic) would be consistent with the MVar names.
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