Re: [Haskell-cafe] System.Timeout problems

Hi

$ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.6.1

...

-- TEST 2 import System.TimeoutGHC

main :: IO () main = do r <- timeout (length [1..]) (putStrLn "here") print r

Now, with either -threaded, or without, it never terminates.

This is expected, as it looks at n before doing anything. I'm not sure why it does so though; it would be nice if timeout just acted as if n was positive and left other cases to the caller.

Woops, I intended to make length [1..] the action, and leave 5 seconds as the timeout... Thanks Neil