machines-0.2.4: README.markdown
machines
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*Ceci n'est pas une pipe*
Machines are demand driven input sources like pipes or conduits, but can support multiple inputs.
You design a `Machine` by writing a `Plan`. You then `construct` the machine.
Simple machines that take one input are called a `Process` and processes form a `Category`. More generally you can attach a
`Process` to the output of any type of `Machine`, yielding a new `Machine`.
More complicated machines provide other ways of connecting to them.
Typically the use of machines proceeds by using simple plans into machine `Tee`s and `Wye`s, capping many of the inputs to
those with possibly monadic sources, feeding the rest input (possibly repeatedly) and calling `run` or `runT` to get the
answers out.
There is a lot of flexibility when building a machine in choosing between empowering the machine to run its own monadic effects
or delegating that responsibility to a custom driver.
A port of this design to scala is available from runarorama/scala-machines
Runar's slides are also available from https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4588997/Machines.pdf
Contact Information
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Contributions and bug reports are welcome!
Please feel free to contact me through github or on the #haskell IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
-Edward Kmett