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Data.IORef

Portability | portable
Stability | experimental
Maintainer | libraries@haskell.org

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IORefs

Description
Mutable references in the IO monad.
Synopsis

data IORef a
newIORef :: a -> IO (IORef a)
readIORef :: IORef a -> IO a
writeIORef :: IORef a -> a -> IO ()
modifyIORef :: IORef a -> (a -> a) -> IO ()
atomicModifyIORef :: IORef a -> (a -> (a, b)) -> IO b
mkWeakIORef :: IORef a -> IO () -> IO (Weak (IORef a))

IORefs

data IORef a | Source

A mutable variable in the `IO` monad
Instances

Typeable1 IORef
Typeable a => Data (IORef a)
Eq (IORef a)

newIORef :: a -> IO (IORef a) | Source

Build a new `IORef`

readIORef :: IORef a -> IO a | Source

Read the value of an `IORef`

writeIORef :: IORef a -> a -> IO () | Source

Write a new value into an `IORef`

modifyIORef :: IORef a -> (a -> a) -> IO () | Source

Mutate the contents of an `IORef`

atomicModifyIORef :: IORef a -> (a -> (a, b)) -> IO b | Source

Atomically modifies the contents of an `IORef`.

This function is useful for using `IORef` in a safe way in a multithreaded program. If you only have one `IORef`, then using `atomicModifyIORef` to access and modify it will prevent race conditions.

Extending the atomicity to multiple `IORef`s is problematic, so it is recommended that if you need to do anything more complicated then using `MVar` instead is a good idea.

mkWeakIORef :: IORef a -> IO () -> IO (Weak (IORef a)) | Source

Make a `Weak` pointer to an `IORef`
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