[Haskell-beginners] Pure function with timeout

[Alex Rozenshteyn]

http://hpaste.org/paste/44514/timed_iteration_try_3#p44516

Using IORefs instead of MVars; seems to work fine and seems conceptually
better.

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglover64 at gmail.com>wrote:

> http://hpaste.org/44514/timed_iteration_try_2
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> seems to work but seems inelegant.
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> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglover64 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> I read http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Timing_out_computations
>> I thought I saw an issue and tested it:
>> http://hpaste.org/44512/timed_iteration
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>> IMO, the timeout function should return the last iterated value when it is
>> signaled, and not the next one after the signal.
>>
>> Is there a convention for this behavior?
>>
>> --
>>            Alex R
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> --
>           Alex R
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-- 
          Alex R
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