Re: [Haskell-cafe] What's the best way to give up?

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a -> IO (Either a a ) and use getCPUTime.

Is there a standard way to do this? Can you think of another way to do it?

I don't know, but this seems relevant: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2005-October/011946.html

I'd make a generic (i.e. higher-order) function that handles the timeout for any computation. i.e.

timeout :: (a -> b) -> Int -> a -> IO (Maybe b)

http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/System-Timeout Perhaps this is for not so much for pure computations as hanging when connecting to nonresponsive servers, although I also use it in a case where buggy long-running code could frustrate the responsiveness of unrelated processes.. --Lane