From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A7A6BB81 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:16:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from outmail.freedom2surf.net (outmail1.freedom2surf.net [194.106.33.237]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k27GGX7s018210 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:16:34 +0100 Received: from [10.0.0.1] (i-195-137-83-147.freedom2surf.net [195.137.83.147]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k27GGT5K006271 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 16:16:30 GMT Message-ID: <440DB255.1030701@asfandyar.cjb.net> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:18:29 +0000 From: Asfand Yar Qazi User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20060217) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: STM support in OCaml Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 440DB1E1.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 haskell:01 cjb:98 concurrent:02 programming:03 library:03 although:08 memory:08 i'm:08 point:11 i've:12 some:13 some:13 add:14 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=DNS_FROM_RFC_WHOIS autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 Hi, I've temporarily decided to leave off learning OCaml (although I still intend to learn it at some point) and start learning Haskell due to its support for Software Transactional Memory and lock-free concurrent programming. Are there any plans to add STM to OCaml? And I'm talking highly integrated into the language, not just some bolt-on library. Thanks