On 2/23/07, Sebastian Sylvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/23/07, Sebastian Sylvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/23/07, Greg Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I want to write a program where a user would update a bunch of variables,
> > and everything that depends on those variables (and nothing else) are
> > recalculated. Basically, a spreadsheet, but generalized for any
> > computation. Could someone recommend an elegant way to do it or some good
> > reading material?
>
> Off the top of my head, one cool way of doing it would be to have each
> variable be a separate thread (they're lightweight, so it's okay!
> :-)), and you would have a list of input connections and output
> connections, in the form of TVars.
>
> In its resting state you would have a transaction which simply reads
> all of the input variables, and returns the new list of inputs if and
> only if either of them are changed, something like:
>
> -- not compiled, consider it pseudocode :-)
> getInputs :: (Eq a ) => [( a, TVar a)] -> STM [a]
> getInputs inp = do
> let (vals, vars) = unzip inp
> newVals <- mapM readTVar vars
> when ( newVals /= vals ) retry -- at least one input must've been changed
Bah, this should be:
when ( newVals == vals ) retry
Of course...
*sigh* and you should return "newVals" not "vals".. It's too late :-)
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Sebastian Sylvan
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