[Haskell-cafe] Re: Asynchronous exception wormholes kill modularity

On Mar 25, 2010, at 19:16 , Bas van Dijk wrote:

But with regard to naming, I think the name 'unmask' is a bit misleading because it doesn't unmask asynchronous exceptions. What it does is remove a layer of masking so to speak. I think the names of the functions should reflect the nesting or stacking behavior. Maybe something like:

addMaskingLayer :: IO a -> IO a removeMaskingLayer :: IO a -> IO a nrOfMaskingLayers :: IO Int

However I do find those a bit long and ugly...

maskP, maskV, masking. :) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH