Re: putMVar on full MVar

[George Russell]

Claus Reinke wrote:
> The same points have been made for languages that omit array
> bounds checks, or allow side effects everywhere, or have limited
> Ints as defaults instead of variable length Integers.
Sorry but I'm not convinced that blocking on a putMVar of a full MVar is any
safer than throwing an exception.  Normally putMVar to a full MVar is
an error, and I would like to know about it.