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Learning Concurrent Programming in Scala

By : Aleksandar Prokopec
5 (1)
Book Image

Learning Concurrent Programming in Scala

5 (1)
By: Aleksandar Prokopec

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Concurrent Programming in Scala
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Exercises


In the following exercises, you will use ScalaSTM to implement various transactional programming abstractions. In most cases, their implementation will closely resemble a sequential implementation, but use transactions. In some cases, you might need to consult external literature or ScalaSTM documentation to correctly solve the exercise.

  1. Implement the transactional pair abstraction, represented with the TPair class:

    class TPair[P, Q](pinit: P, qinit: Q) {
      def first(implicit txn: InTxn): P = ???
      def first_=(x: P)(implicit txn: InTxn): P = ???
      def second(implicit txn: InTxn): Q = ???
      def second_=(x: Q)(implicit txn: InTxn): Q = ???
      def swap()(implicit e: P =:= Q, txn: InTxn): Unit = ???
    }

    In addition to getters and setters for the two fields, the transactional pair defines the swap method that swaps the fields, and can only be called if the types P and Q are the same.

  2. Use ScalaSTM to implement the mutable location abstraction from Haskell, represented with the MVar class:

    class...