[Haskell-cafe] ReaderT and concurrency

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Kurt,

Wednesday, November 16, 2005, 7:51:19 PM, you wrote:

KH> I'm writing a program that will be using multiple threads to handle
KH> network activity on multiple ports in a responsive way. The treads
KH> will all need access to some shared data, so I'm using an MVar. So far
KH> so good. The problem is that passing the MVar around everywhere is
KH> kind of a pain, so I was hoping to use a ReaderT monad on top of the
KH> IO monad to handle that for me.

there are two alternative solutions:

1) use global variables
2) use implicit parameters (ghc-specific)


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