[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Elerea, another FRP library

[Peter Verswyvelen]

Well, a breakout game does *not* work (yet) in most other FRP
implementations except Yampa, which do have firm theoretical foundations :-)
2009/4/15 Patai Gergely <patai_gergely at fastmail.fm>

> > I don't think using dirty tricks to implement FRP deserves
> > flak, at all, from my POV, it sounds like complaining that the
> > IO monad is implemented using C... meaning that if you're that
> > close to bare thunks, you have every right to use any means
> > necessary to make them behave properly.
> Dirtiness is not the problem, but the fact that it can leak out at the
> present moment. I want guarantees to exclude the possibility of
> undesired behaviour on the user side. Am I right thinking that the
> NOINLINE pragma on unsafeDupablePerformIO prevents the problem of
> multiple evaluation discussed yesterday? Or should I add NOINLINE to
> primitives in Elerea.Internal too? If that guaranteed sharing, it would
> certainly solve most of the problems we talked about. Apart from that,
> I'm still not sure that latching works the way intended all the time,
> but the fact that the breakout example works is an indication that at
> least it's not hopelessly broken.
>
> Gergely
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