---------------------- Forwarded by Dominic Steinitz/HEATHROW/BRITISH AIRWAYS/GB on 27/11/2001 09:59 --------------------------- From: Dominic Steinitz on 27/11/2001 08:16 To: uk1o cc: haskell bcc: Subject: Re: Asynchronous Exceptions
Hannah, I was thinking of where you really want to write something to a transaction log so that you know an action really did complete. Is there a way of doing this? Dominic. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 26/11/2001 23:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@INTERNET cc: bcc: Dominic Steinitz/HEATHROW/BRITISH AIRWAYS/GB Subject: Re: Asynchronous Exceptions 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To receive our special fares directly by email, register at http://www.britishairways.com/registration _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
