On Monday 08 Nov 2004 12:26 pm, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
Keean Schupke wrote:
Adrian Hey wrote:
The first step to solving a problem is to at least recognise that it exists. What is "bizarre" is that so many folk seem to be in denial over this. Perhaps you would like to show me your solution to the "oneShot" problem.
Why are you unable to give a concrete real world example of why this is necessary then. Even your example of real world hardware that must be initialised once fails! (What if I start two copies of the program?)
Indeed. With hardware the solution is to do hdl <- openDevice which will succeed the first time and then return "busy" until closed.
How will it know it's "busy"? Please show me the code for your hypothetical openDevice. Regards -- Adrian Hey