[Haskell] ANN: IOSpec 0.1

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:16:56PM +0100, Wouter Swierstra wrote:
> 
> * If you're an ICFP referee, you may want to avoid reading any further*
> 
> 
> 			Test.IOSpec	Version 1.0
> 
> 
> I'm pleased to announce the first release of the Test.IOSpec library,  
> that provides a pure specification of some functions in the IO monad.  
> This may be of interest to anyone who wants to debug, reason about,  
> analyse, or test impure code.
> 
> Essentially, by importing libraries from IOSpec you can the same code  
> you would normally write in the IO monad. Once you're satisfied that  
> your functions are reasonably well-behaved, you can remove the  
> Test.IOSpec import and replace it with the "real" functions instead.
> 
>   Website: www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~wss/repos/IOSpec
>   Darcs: darcs get www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~wss/repos/IOSpec
>   Tarball: www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~wss/repos/IOSpec/dist/IOSpec-0.1.tar.gz
>   Haddock: www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~wss/repos/IOSpec/dist/doc/html
> 
> Several examples are included with the sources.
> 
> At the moment, the library consists of the following modules:
> 
>   * Test.IOSpec.Teletype: a specification of getChar and putChar.
>   * Test.IOSpec.IORef: a specification of most functions on IORefs.
>   * Test.IOSpec.Concurrent: specification of forkIO and MVars.
> 
> As an added feature, running concurrent code using  
> Test.IOSpec.Concurrent will detect deadlocks, instead of looping  
> indefinitely.
> 
> Future work includes:
> 
>   * Improving the interface, making it easier to combine functions  
> from different modules.
>   * Adding more functionality: STM and weak pointers seem likely  
> candidates.
> 
> If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, please do get in  
> touch.

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Stefan