On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 00:39, Bill
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 16:46 -0400, John Van Enk wrote: . . .
I fully realize how un-clever this is. Some one please give me something more worth of the original list. :)
You shoot the gun but nothing happens (Haskell is pure, after all).
Realizing that I pressed "reply" instead of "reply to all" yesterday, here's my message again (sorry Bill). A little refinement: You shoot in the direction of your foot, but since you are inside the STM monad you can just retry until you figure out what to do. Alternatively: You shoot yorself in the foot, but you are perfectly fine as long you just don't evaluate the foot. Same, but more subtle: You shoot yourself in the foot, but nothing happens unless you start walking. cheers, Arnar