Poll: System.exitWith behaviour

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Wed, 23 May 2001 16:50:42 +1000, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty <chak@cse.unsw.edu.au> pisze:

> I think, having the third point is good, because the Haskell
> report requires that 
> 
>   Computation exitWith code terminates the program,
>   returning code to the program's caller.

Well, it says also that

    Actions, however, must be ordered in a well-defined manner for
    program execution -- and I/O in particular -- to be meaningful.
    Haskell 's I/O monad provides the user with a way to specify the
    sequential chaining of actions, and an implementation is obliged
    to preserve this order.

which is not true in a threaded program.

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