Hello! On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 09:38:35AM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> [...] > However, I agree that sometimes you really want to be able to do this, > so perhaps we need another form of 'block' which doesn't allow *any* > exceptions to be delivered, for those times when you know that the time > spent waiting in an interruptible operation is going to be bounded. But even things like putStr can block for an unbounded amount of time. E.g. stdout is a pipe and the reader just doesn't read it for n hours (n unknown), etc. Kind regards, Hannah. _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
