[Haskell-beginners] Designing complex Haskell programs

AntC anthony_clayden at clear.net.nz
Thu Jan 9 20:48:40 UTC 2014


> Bob Ippolito <bob <at> redivi.com> writes:
> 
> I wouldn't recommend going down the path of
> using IORef or MVar for everything,
> it's not easy to build robust systems that way. ...

> > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Courtney Robinson wrote:
> > ... it fell apart when I tried contacting multiple hosts
> >  on different threads using forkIO. ...
> 

Hi Bob and Daniel,

Out of interest, is there some reason you don't mention TVar's?

I thought they are the (modern) way to "build robust systems"
with "different threads using forkIO"(?)

Cheers
AntC



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