Today, 2023-11-22, at 1930 UTC (11:30 am PST, 2:30 pm EST, 7:30 pm GMT, 20:30 CET, …) we are streaming the 15th episode of the Haskell Unfolder live on YouTube.
The Haskell Unfolder Episode 15: interruptible operations
In episode 10 on generalBracket we discussed asynchronous exceptions: exceptions that can be thrown to a thread at any point. In that episode we saw that correct exception handling in the presence of asynchronous exceptions relies on carefully controlling precisely when they delivered by masking (temporarily postponing) asynchronous exceptions at specific points. However, even when asynchronous exceptions are masked, some specific instructions can still be interrupted by asynchronous exceptions (technically, these are now synchronous). In this episode we will see how this works, why it is important, and how to take interruptibility into account.
About the Haskell Unfolder
The Haskell Unfolder is a YouTube series about all things Haskell hosted by Edsko de Vries and Andres Löh, with episodes appearing approximately every two weeks. All episodes are live-streamed, and we try to respond to audience questions. All episodes are also available as recordings afterwards.
We have a GitHub repository with code samples from the episodes.
And we have a public Google calendar (also available as ICal) listing the planned schedule.