On 2006-04-11, Ross Paterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:13:00AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: >> - the default should be... concurrent reentrant, presumably, because >> that is the safest. (so we need to invert the notation). > > I think the name "concurrent" has a similar problem to "safe": it reads > as an instruction to the implementation, rather than a declaration by the > programmer of the properties of a particular function; as Wolfgang put it, > "this function might spend a lot of time in foreign lands".
I'd like to second this. -- Aaron Denney -><- _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
