[Haskell-cafe] STM, orElse and timed read from a channel

[Simon Marlow]

On 01 December 2005 13:27, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

> Hello Simon,
> 
> Wednesday, November 30, 2005, 3:26:44 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> It's a modification of GHC.Conc, so I can't supply a standalone
>> implementation I'm afraid.
> 
>>> I could use Tomasz's workaround in the meantime but isn't GHC 6.6
>>> supposed to be out in a year?
> 
>> Rather less than a year, I hope.
> 
> Joel, you can download GHC 6.6 beta builds (from
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/head/dist ?), so you only
> need to wait until Simon actually merges this update to the main code

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/

and registerTimeout is already in.

Cheers,
	Simon