Quote: can interrupt a purely-functional computation at any point; allows asynchronous exceptions

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In practice, few concurrent languages provide any mechanism … where the target occasionally checks for signals; or … the semi-asynchronous approach is simply incompatible with a … On the other hand, since there is absolutely … functional setting.   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: most concurrent languages disallow asynchronous signaling; provide polling or safe points for receiving signals

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