[Haskell-cafe] Retiring forkIO

[Don Stewart]

gue.schmidt:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to retire forkIO and friends by using Delimited Continuations  
> instead. Am I dead wrong here in my understanding of Delimited  
> Continuations or can I pursue in this direction?
>
> The most immediate use for this is actully GUI problems where I'd use  
> del-conts in place of forkIO for long-running computations because once I 
> forkIO the computation so as not to block the UI thread I cannot call GUI 
> code from the end of that thread. Well I can but then the app crashes  
> because of single threading issues.
>

Can you provide some examples of how you'd rewrite forkIO code to use del-conts?

-- Don