modifyIORef in IOExts/hslibs

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Wed, 3 Jan 2001 23:42:51 +0100 (MET), Axel Krauth <krauth at infosun.fmi.uni-passau.de> pisze:

> I'm using the IOExts-library and want to use
> modifyIORef instead of updateIORef which is marked as deprecated
> (section 4.14.2 in the hslibs documentation).
> Unfortunately IOExts.hi doesn't export modifyIORef. It only
> exports updateIORef..

In ghc-4.08.1 (the latest released version) it was called updateIORef.
In development versions it is called modifyIORef and updateIORef is
still kept for compatibility.

> Is it safe to use updateIORef meanwhile?

Yes.

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