package picos
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Module Picos_structured.Promise
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A cancelable promise.
ℹ️ In addition to using a promise to concurrently compute and return a value, a cancelable promise can also represent a concurrent fiber that will continue until it is explicitly canceled.
Represents a promise to return value of type 'a
.
await promise
awaits until the promise has completed and either returns the value
that the evaluation of the promise returned, raises the exception that the evaluation of the promise raised, or raises the Terminate
exception in case the promise has been canceled.
is_running promise
determines whether the completion of the promise is still pending.
try_terminate promise
tries to terminate the promise by canceling it with the Terminate
exception and returns true
in case of success and false
in case the promise had already completed, i.e. either returned, raised, or canceled.
terminate promise
is equivalent to try_terminate promise |> ignore
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