important news: refocusing discussion

[Simon Marlow]

On 28 March 2006 00:24, Ross Paterson wrote:

> How about STM (minus retry/orElse) and TVars as the portable
> interface? They're trivial for a single-threaded implementation, and
> provide a comfortable interface for everyone.

It just occurred to me that STM isn't completely trivial in a
single-threaded implementation, because exceptions have to abort a
transaction in progress.

Cheers,
	Simon