[Haskell-cafe] Re: Pike's Newsqueak talk

[Chung-chieh Shan]

Tim Newsham <newsham at lava.net> wrote in article <Pine.BSI.4.64.0906051510070.14634 at malasada.lava.net> in gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe:
> his language also 
> supports an interesting imperative primitive that lets you pick the first 
> available value from a set of channels which isn't available in pure 
> Haskell expressions.  Has anyone implemented a primitive like this for 
> Haskell?

Could it be the "amb" described at
    http://conal.net/blog/posts/functional-concurrency-with-unambiguous-choice/
    http://conal.net/blog/posts/smarter-termination-for-thread-racing/
?

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