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Control.Monad.STM

Portability | non-portable (requires STM)
Stability | experimental
Maintainer | libraries@haskell.org

Description

Software Transactional Memory: a modular composable concurrency abstraction. See

- Composable memory transactions, by Tim Harris, Simon Marlow, Simon Peyton Jones, and Maurice Herlihy, in ACM Conference on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming 2005. http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/papers/stm/index.htm

Documentation
STM
atomically
retry
orElse
check :: Bool -> STM a
catchSTM
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