ezyang’s blog

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All about MVars

I recently took the time out to rewrite the MVar documentation, which as it stands is fairly sparse (the introduction section rather tersely states "synchronising variables"; though to the credit of the original writers the inline documentation for the data type and its fundamental operations is fairly fleshed out.) I've reproduced my new introduction here. […]

  • February 2, 2011