Tim Newsham
his language also supports an interesting imperative primitive that lets you pick the first available value from a set of channels which isn't available in pure Haskell expressions. Has anyone implemented a primitive like this for Haskell?
Could it be the "amb" described at http://conal.net/blog/posts/functional-concurrency-with-unambiguous-choice/ http://conal.net/blog/posts/smarter-termination-for-thread-racing/ ? -- Edit this signature at http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ken/sig We want our revolution, and we want it now! -- Marat/Sade We want our revolution, and we'll take it at such time as you've gotten around to delivering it -- Haskell programmer