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dejafu [![Build Status][build-status]][build-log]
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> [Déjà Fu is] A martial art in which the user's limbs move in time as
> well as space, […] It is best described as "the feeling that you
> have been kicked in the head this way before"
>
> -- Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
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Concurrency is nice, deadlocks and race conditions not so much. The
`Par` monad family, as defined in [abstract-par][] provides
deterministic parallelism, but sometimes we can tolerate a bit of
nondeterminism.
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This package provides a class of monads for potentially
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nondeterministic concurrency, with an interface in the spirit of GHC's
normal concurrency abstraction.
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The documentation of the latest developmental version is
[available online][docs].
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`MonadConc` and `IO`
--------------------
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The intention of the `MonadConc` class is to provide concurrency where
any apparent nondeterminism arises purely from the scheduling
behaviour. To put it another way, a given computation, parametrised
with a fixed set of scheduling decisions, is deterministic. This
assumption is used by the testing functionality provided by
Control.Monad.Conc.SCT.
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Whilst this assumption may not hold in general when `IO` is involved,
you should strive to produce test cases where it does.
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Contributing
------------
Bug reports, pull requests, and comments are very welcome!
Feel free to contact me on GitHub, through IRC (#haskell on freenode),
or email (mike@barrucadu.co.uk).
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[build-log]: http://ci.barrucadu.co.uk/job/(dejafu)/job/dejafu/
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[docs]: https://barrucadu.github.io/dejafu
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[abstract-par]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/abstract-par/docs/Control-Monad-Par-Class.html