On 05 February 2006 00:21, Benjamin Franksen wrote: > On Friday 03 February 2006 08:52, Tomasz Zielonka wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 01:05:57PM +0000, Ross Paterson wrote: >>> Personally, I'm not sure about caseless underscore, concurrency, >>> natural numbers and parallel list comprehensions. >> >> There is one more reason to leave concurrency out of the standard. >> >> Some experts (like Hans Boehm) argue, that concurrency can't be >> added to the language as a library. >> http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-209.pdf >> >> This is true for many imperative programming languages. Haskell >> seems to be an exception: >> >> http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2005-December >> /009417.html >> >> We don't have any problems with ensuring good cooperation between >> mutable variables and concurrency synchronisation primitives, because >> the language doesn't have mutable variables, they are delivered in >> the concurrency library - the variables _are_ the synchronisation >> primitives. > > What about IORefs?
The interaction between concurrency and IORefs was recently discussed on the ghc-users list: http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2005-December/00 9389.html Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
