Proposal: add forkOnIO and friends to Control.Concurrent:

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 12/23/10 20:57 , Thomas Schilling wrote:
> I also find the name 'forkOnIO' extremely confusing.  Without reading
> the docs it seems to imply that a thread is created on IO, i.e., if
> I/O happens.  This makes no sense, and is of course not what's
> happening.  However, I assume you chose it because forkIOOn looks a
> bit weird.  In that case, why not use forkThreadOn, and in a separate
> proposal change forkIO to forkThread (or just fork).

+1
The name "forkIO" always seemed a bit odd to me; aren't threads pretty much
constrained to IO anyway?

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