On 11 April 2006 17:49, Aaron Denney wrote: > 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.
I agree. So other suggestions? longrunning? mightblock or mayblock? I don't much like 'nonreentrant', it's a bit of a mouthful. Any other suggestions for that? nocallback? Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime