future: Supposed to mimics and enhance proposed C++ "future" features
Similar to "futures" in C++ (with support for cotinuations). This differs from IVars in that the value is from an action in a spawned thread, and exceptions are caught and returned.
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| Versions [RSS] | 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 2.0.0 | 
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| Dependencies | base (>=4) [details] | 
| Tested with | ghc ==6.10.1 | 
| License | BSD-3-Clause | 
| Copyright | (c) 2009 Christopher Edward Kuklewicz | 
| Author | Christopher Edward Kuklewicz | 
| Maintainer | Chris Kuklewicz <haskell@list.mightyreason.com> | 
| Category | Concurrency | 
| Home page | http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/future | 
| Uploaded | by ChrisKuklewicz at 2009-03-12T21:35:54Z | 
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| Reverse Dependencies | 1 direct, 0 indirect [details] | 
| Downloads | 3669 total (8 in the last 30 days) | 
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