Asynchronous exception wormholes kill modularity

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Mar 25, 2010, at 19:16 , Bas van Dijk wrote:
> But with regard to naming, I think the name 'unmask' is a bit
> misleading because it doesn't unmask asynchronous exceptions. What it
> does is remove a layer of masking so to speak. I think the names of
> the functions should reflect the nesting or stacking behavior. Maybe
> something like:
>
> addMaskingLayer :: IO a -> IO a
> removeMaskingLayer :: IO a -> IO a
> nrOfMaskingLayers :: IO Int
>
> However I do find those a bit long and ugly...


maskP, maskV, masking.  :)

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