Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why is TChan GHC specific?

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Edward Amsden wrote:

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:

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As far as I know, TChan needs the 'retry' combinator which requires GHC's RTS. Same is true for TMVar, I think.

(sorry for the doubling peter, I forgot reply-all)

OK. I'm new to this and probably didn't know where to look, but I didn't know that 'retry' was GHC specific.

All of STM (Software Transactional Memory) is GHC-specific.