[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: enumerator 0.4.8

[John Millikin]

On Sunday, March 27, 2011 9:45:23 PM UTC-7, Ertugrul Soeylemez wrote:
>
> > For setting a global timeout on an entire session, it's better to wrap
> > the ``run_`` call with ``System.Timeout.timeout`` -- this is more
> > efficient than testing the time on every chunk, and does not require a
> > specialised enumerator.
> It may be more efficient, but I don't really like it.  I like robust
>
> applications, and to me killing a thread is always a mistake, even if
> the thread is kill-safe.
>
``timeout`` doesn't kill the thread, it just returns ``Nothing`` if the 
computation took longer than expected.
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