[Haskell-cafe] List of functions

[Sebastian Sylvan]

On 8/30/05, Dinh Tien Tuan Anh <tuananhbirm at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Basically, i have several rules:
>          f1 x y ...
>          f2 x y ...
>          .....
> 
> They are all of the same type, but different names because i'll later on
> launch one thread for each of them, i.e:
>               forkIO (f1 x y)
>               forkIO (f2 x y)
>               .....
> 
> There maybe still more rules, and i dont want to manually writing forkIO ...
> for every new one.
> So is there an elegant way to put all those rules together in a list and
> then call "mapIO forkIO" just once, (of course, a new rule should be
> attached to the list as well) ?
> 
> Thanks a lot
> TuanAnh

Something like (untested)...

xs <- zipWith ($) forkIO (map (\f -> f x y) funs)
tids <- sequence xs

/S

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