26 Jan
2012
26 Jan
'12
10:01 p.m.
On 1/24/12 10:25 AM, Ryan Newton wrote:
This is related but somewhat tangential --
*Why isn't there a tryReadChan?* It looks like it would be implementable with the current Chan representation in terms of tryTakeMVar. Especially since isEmptyChan is deprecated this would be nice to have.
(A) See stm-chans: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/stm-chans/1.2.0.1/doc/html/Contr... (B) The reason that module is called Compat is because (optimized versions of) those functions have already been pushed to HEAD. We're just waiting for them to make it out to the public. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5104 http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cvs-libraries/2011-April/012914.html -- Live well, ~wren