[Haskell-cafe] question about STM and IO

[Ricardo Herrmann]

Stephan Friedrichs-2 wrote:
> 
> 
> it's unsafe to perform IO inside of a transaction as it can't be undone, 
> when rolling it back. I guess, unsafeIOToSTM has been designed in order 
> to allow us to inject debugging output into a transaction, but you 
> really shouldn't use it to perform "real" IO (like writing files, etc.).
> 
> 

Simon Peyton Jones provides a good example of this in
http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/stm/beautiful.pdf



> atomically (do { x <- readTVar xv
>                     ; y <- readTVar yv
>                     ; if x>y then launchMissiles
>                                else return () })
> 
> where launchMissiles :: IO () causes serious international side-effects.
> 

;-)

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