Re: Proposal: Control.Concurrent.Async

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Gábor Lehel wrote:

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Simon Marlow wrote:

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- Can we find a more accurate name for tryWait? It doesn't try and possibly fail to wait, it avoids waiting altogether. Maybe don'tWait, although that doesn't say what it does do. The only other idea I have is 'check' which is not very descriptive...

Good point.  How about "poll"?

Definitely better.

Just ideas: - waitAny and company could be generalized to any Foldable. Downside: it makes the type signatures less obvious. Upside: if people will be taking the completed Async and removing it from the list (and doing this frequently), they might prefer something more efficient than a list. - If we want to follow the analogy, waitAny could be called 'select'.