[Haskell-cafe] STM: "nested atomically" error

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 16:50, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com>wrote:

> My guess is that your "debug printing" is causing something to be
> evaluated when it otherwise wouldn't be, causing a transaction to begin
> within a transaction.
>

My guess is something is being lazily evaluated as usual, but if that is
forced within a transaction, well, last I checked the GHC I/O system used
STM internally so unsafePerformIO debug prints could well cause nested
transactions.

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