Is it true that an exception is always terminates the thread?

[Simon Marlow]

On 24/01/2012 15:59, Edward Z. Yang wrote:
> Excerpts from Ryan Newton's message of Tue Jan 24 10:25:37 -0500 2012:
>> This is related but somewhat tangential --
>>
>>    *Why isn't there a tryReadChan?*  It looks like it would be implementable
>> with the current Chan representation in terms of tryTakeMVar.  Especially
>> since isEmptyChan is deprecated this would be nice to have.
>>
>> Because of missing tryReadChan there is no non-blocking way to read data
>> resident in a Chan (i.e. flush it -- in this case because I was in an
>> exception handler and wanted to flush out what was left in memory in a
>> Chan).  I found myself rolling my own in the form of the following data
>> structure to get around this:
>
> Aw, that's a shame, especially since there does exist a tryReadMVar, so
> it seems like it ought to be possible (though I haven't checked closely.)

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4535

Looks like we didn't get around to adding it.

Cheers,
	Simon