[Haskell-cafe] STM, IO and event loops

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Joel,

Sunday, November 27, 2005, 2:12:23 PM, you wrote:

JR> My poker bots are launched in separate threads but do not talk to
JR> each other right now. They just receive events from the network. I  
JR> would like a poker bot to tell others to stop playing and exit, for  
JR> example.

use async exceptions to do it

JR> 10k threads but it seems that disassociating bots from the network
JR> has some positive effects. I could compose packets by hand in the  
JR> interpreter and feed them to the TChan by hand to test individual  
JR> bots, for example.

as Tomasz already suggested, your bots must be parametrized by
action which gets next item, not by Chan/... itself.

current implementation:

bot chan = ... x<-readChan chan

must be:

bot reading = ... x<-reading
...
top_level = ... chan <- newChan
                forkIO $ bot (readChan chan)
                forkIO $ another_procedure (writeChan chan)

-- 
Best regards,
 Bulat                            mailto:bulatz at HotPOP.com