STM experiment

[Brent Yorgey]

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 06:16:49PM +0200, Luca Ciciriello wrote:
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> Compiling this module with:
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> ghc --make Main.hs -o Main
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> and launcing ./Main the result is just:
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> Terminal> world

Also, the reason you only get "world" here is likely because the main
thread prints "world" and exits before the forked thread even gets a
chance to run.  If you want the main thread to wait for the forked
thread you must explicitly synchronize them; the most common way to do
this is to set up an MVar (or a TVar in STM code) which the main
thread reads from, and the forked thread writes to when it is
finished in order to signal the main thread.

-Brent