Re: black hole detection and concurrency

2009-01-05 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 05:07:22PM +0100, Bertram Felgenhauer wrote: > Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > > > > This is odd (to me). The "permanently bound" stuff applies only to > > *synchronous* exceptions, which thread-killing is not. Simon M will > > have more to say when he gets back > > This is

RE: GADT Strangeness

2009-01-05 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| Thanks very much for this. I would never have guessed to use | -XRelaxedPolyRec given the error message. | | Is it worth noting it here | http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Upgrading_packages#Changes_to_GADT_matching | or is it something that has always existed with GADTs and I just didn't | trip ove

RE: [reactive] Re: black hole detection and concurrency

2009-01-05 Thread Sittampalam, Ganesh
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 07:40:38PM -0500, Isaac Dupree wrote: > > - does anyone use mapException? > I was the one who originally requested it, since it was mentioned > in the paper and looked reasonable, but was missing from GHC. > My motivation was that it could be used by a pure function to