The central monad of the library. You can use Control.Concurrent.CHP.Monad.runCHP and Control.Concurrent.CHP.Monad.runCHP_ to execute programs in this monad.

A monad transformer class that is very similar to MonadIO. This can be useful if you want to add monad transformers (such as StateT, ReaderT) on top of the CHP monad.

Runs a CHP program. You should use this once, at the top-level of your program. Do not ever use this function twice in parallel and attempt to communicate between those processes using channels. Instead, run this function once and use it to spawn off the parallel processes that you need.

Runs a CHP program. Like runCHP but discards the output.

Allows embedding of the CHP monad back into the IO monad. The argument that this function takes is a CHP action (with arbitrary behaviour). The function is monadic, and returns something of type: IO a. This is an IO action that you can now use in the IO monad wherever you like. What it returns is the result of your original action.

This function is intended for use wherever you need to supply an IO callback (for example with the OpenGL libraries) that needs to perform CHP communications. It is the safe way to do things, rather than using runCHP twice (and also works with CSP and VCR traces -- but not structural traces!).

A convenient version of embedCHP that ignores the result

A helper like embedCHP for callbacks that take an argument

A convenient version of embedCHP1 that ignores the result

Allows you to provide a handler for sections with poison. It is usually used in an infix form as follows:

 (readChannel c >>= writeChannel d) `onPoisonTrap` (poison c >> poison d)

It handles the poison and does not rethrow it (unless your handler does so). If you want to rethrow (and actually, you'll find you usually do), use onPoisonRethrow

Like onPoisonTrap, this function allows you to provide a handler for poison. The difference with this function is that even if the poison handler does not throw, the poison exception will always be re-thrown after the handler anyway. That is, the following lines of code all have identical behaviour:

 foo
 foo `onPoisonRethrow` throwPoison
 foo `onPoisonRethrow` return ()

Throws a poison exception.

A class indicating that something is poisonable.

Poisons all the given items. A handy shortcut for mapM_ poison.

A monad transformer for easier looping. This is independent of the CHP aspects, but has all the right type-classes defined for it to make it easy to use with the CHP library.

Runs the given action in a loop, executing it repeatedly until a while statement inside it has a False condition. If you use loop without while, the effect is the same as forever.

Continues executing the loop if the given value is True. If the value is False, the loop is broken immediately, and control jumps back to the next action after the outer loop statement. Thus you can build pre-condition, post-condition, and "mid-condition" loops, placing the condition wherever you like.

The classic skip process/guard. Does nothing, and is always ready.

Suitable for use in an Control.Concurrent.CHP.Alt.alt.

The stop guard. Its main use is that it is never ready in a choice, so can be used to mask out guards. If you actually execute stop, that process will do nothing more. Any parent process waiting for it to complete will wait forever.

The type of this function was generalised in CHP 1.6.0.

Waits for the specified number of microseconds (millionths of a second). There is no guaranteed precision, but the wait will never complete in less time than the parameter given.

Suitable for use in an Control.Concurrent.CHP.Alt.alt, but note that waitFor 0 is not the same as skip. waitFor 0 Control.Concurrent.CHP.Alt.</> x will not always select the first guard, depending on x. Included in this is the lack of guarantee that waitFor 0 Control.Concurrent.CHP.Alt.</> waitFor n will select the first guard for any value of n (including 0). It is not useful to use two waitFor guards in a single Control.Concurrent.CHP.Alt.alt anyway.

NOTE: If you wish to use this as part of a choice, you must use -threaded as a GHC compilation option (at least under 6.8.2).