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

wren ng thornton wren at freegeek.org
Fri Jan 27 04:04:28 CET 2012


On 1/26/12 10:01 PM, wren ng thornton wrote:
> On 1/24/12 10:25 AM, Ryan Newton wrote:
>> 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.
>
> (A) See stm-chans:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/stm-chans/1.2.0.1/doc/html/Control-Concurrent-STM-TChan-Compat.html

Er, whoops. I thought you said tryReadTChan.

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