[core libraries] Improved TimerManager API

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Andrew has done a lot of work with the Event Manager. Perhaps he has a more
nuanced opinion on this, but I don't see any reason why not. So I am +1.

Out of curiosity, what are you doing with the event manager?

On Sat, May 30, 2020, 10:38 PM George Wilson <george at wils.online> wrote:

> Admittedly I'm not familiar with that module, but this change seems
> easy to make.
> It seems as though these functions don't exactly "fail"; rather they
> don't bother updating the queue if the change would be redundant. Is
> that correct? Could you explain why you want to detect this?
>
> Cheers,
> George
>
> On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 09:59, Mitchell Rosen <mitchellwrosen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to propose we modify GHC.Event.updateTimeout and
> GHC.Event.unregisterTimeout to each return a Bool, indicating whether the
> update/unregister was successful.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mitchell
> >
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