[Haskell-cafe] do you have to use fix with forkio?

Martijn van Steenbergen martijn at van.steenbergen.nl
Sat Mar 7 17:34:42 EST 2009


Derek Elkins wrote:
> If you are doing something else, use something else.  This makes it
> clear that you -aren't- going to break out (non-exceptionally), i.e. the
> control flow is more obvious in this code than in the other versions.

Oh yes, of course! I wasn't saying forever is bad; in fact I agree with 
you that it's the best solution in this case. I just wanted to note that 
forever isn't always a good substitute for "fix $ \loop ->", without 
implying that was what you were suggesting.

Martijn.


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