Talk:SantaClausProblemV2
Beautiful concurrency
I am writing a chapter for a book called "Beautiful code", edited by Greg Wilson. The chapter is a tutorial about Software Transactional Memory in Haskell.
After a lot of useful feedback, I have now completed Version 2 of the paper. The Haskell code is also available.
I would welcome any comments or questions you have on the paper, or constructive suggestions for improving it; the more concrete the better. You can see what people said about version 1 on the version 1 talk page: Talk:SantaClausProblem .
The book is aimed at a general audience of programmers, not Haskell geeks, so I have tried to explain everything necessary as I go along. So if you are not a Haskell expert, your input would be particularly valuable to me.
You can email me directly (simonpj@microsoft.com), or add Wiki talk notes below.
If you give your real name somewhere in your text (or email it to me), I'll add you to the acknowledgements at the end of the chapter. Notably, I'd like to acknowledge Steven807, Tibbe, Fanf, Garious, Rycee, Brecknell, Mvanier, Gaal, Fernando, Gknauth, EngineerScotty, BoAdler.
Simonpj 14:26, 22 December 2006 (UTC) To add a note, begin with four tilde signs ~~~~; the Wiki will fill in your user name and date.
Brecknell 13:38, 11 January 2007 (UTC) In Figure 1, retry should be STM a, not STM ().
Sylvain 13:45, 11 January 2007 (UTC) small points: since you go through explaining that the do-notation is overloaded and works for STM as well as IO (page 8), you might want to tell the same for return on page 11 (return being given with a type a -> IO a on page 5). There is also a double "Here is the code" at the bottom of page 17.