[Haskell-cafe] What is MonadPlus good for?

[Tomasz Zielonka]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:06:36PM +0100, Remi Turk wrote:
> You might be interested in the recent STM monad then
> (Control.Concurrent.STM in GHC-6.4): `T' for Transactional.
> However, though it supports both MonadPlus and exceptions, it
> doesn't use MonadPlus for exceptions: It's used for
> blocking/retrying a thread/transaction.

And for non-deterministic choice.

BTW, I have an implementation of STM based entirely on old concurrency
primitives, which means that it will work in older GHC and probably in
other Haskell compilers. I am going to put it on my web site, when I get
one.

Best regards
Tomasz

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