Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Future 1.1.0 concurrency library

2009-03-09 Thread Don Stewart
Who needs to build futures into the language -- all you need is MVars, eh? -- Don vanenkj: > I'd also like to point out that Chris did this with 165 lines of > code--including comments and whitespace! If you drop the whitespace and > comments, it's only 91 lines! > __

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Future 1.1.0 concurrency library

2009-03-09 Thread John Van Enk
I'd also like to point out that Chris did this with 165 lines of code--including comments and whitespace! If you drop the whitespace and comments, it's only 91 lines! /jve On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:54 PM, ChrisK wrote: > Hello, > > As a side effect of the discussion of the new C++ future/promis

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Future 1.1.0 concurrency library

2009-03-09 Thread John Van Enk
This is way cool! /jve On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:54 PM, ChrisK wrote: > Hello, > > As a side effect of the discussion of the new C++ future/promise features > at http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3221 I have implemented a Haskell > package called "future" at > > http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Future 1.1.0 concurrency library

2009-03-09 Thread ChrisK
Hello, As a side effect of the discussion of the new C++ future/promise features at http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3221 I have implemented a Haskell package called "future" at http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/future This ought to do what C++ standard futures/